Salvator Rosa at Dulwich Picture Gallery (London, UK)

Salvator Rosa: (1615 -1673) Bandits, Wilderness and Magic
Dulwich Picture Gallery
15 september – 28 November 2010

Salvator Rosa (1615-1673) was one of the boldest and most powerfully inventive artists and personalities of the Italian 17th century. He invented new types of painting: allegorical pictures, distinguished by a haunting and melancholy poetry; fanciful portraits of romantic and enigmatic figures; macabre and horrific subjects; philosophical subjects, which bring into painting some of the major philosophical and scientific concerns of his age.