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The Dream of Aeneas
Creator
Salvator RosaItalian Artist · 1615–1673
All works by this person →> [O]ur wealth must consist in things of the spirit, and in contenting ourselves with sipping, while others gorge themselves in prosperity. > >--Salvator Rosa Despite living three hundred years before the Romantic movement, Rosa--a poet, satirist, composer, etcher, and painter--epitomized the Romantic rebel. He refused to paint on commission or to agree on a price beforehand, and he chose his own
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- about 1663
- Medium
- Black and white chalk
- Culture
- Italian
- Department
- Drawings
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 4acbb434-fc30-4632-8895-cc3200919454
At the beginning of Aeneas's journey, the epic tale told by Virgil in the *Aeneid,* the god Tiber comes to Aeneas in a dream to tell him of his destiny. Aeneas lies sleeping, still wearing his armor and resting his head on his shield. Compared to other known chalk works by Salvator Rosa, this drawing is unsually large and complete. Not only have the figures been carefully built up with black and white chalk, but the background is filled with wild lines that emphasize the drama of the scene. Scholars have identified this drawing as a finished study for Rosa's etching of the same subject made about 1663.
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