Bronze Age Gold from Wales
Rocky landscape with herdsmen and cattle
ROSA, Salvator (1615 - 1673)
In this landscape sheer cliffs and twisted trees tower menacingly over the herdsmen below. Salvator Rosa's landscapes are dark, savage and often macabre. He was indifferent to the demands of ideal beauty as seen in the landscapes of Claude and Poussin. His vivid, controversial life made him a hero in eighteenth-century Britain, where his work had a powerful influence on artists, particularly the great Welsh landscape painter Richard Wilson.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 8
Creation/Production
ROSA, Salvator
Date: 1660 ca
Acquisition
Bequest, 25/2/1925
Measurements
Height
(cm): 50.5
Width
(cm): 68
Height
(in): 19
Width
(in): 26
h(cm) frame:70.0
h(cm)
w(cm) frame:87.0
w(cm)
d(cm) frame:8.5
d(cm)
Techniques
canvas
Material
oil
Location
Gallery 02
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