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Ruins in a Rocky Landscape

c. 1640

Salvator Rosa

(Italian, 1615–1673)

Italy, 17th century

Oil on canvas

Framed: 157.5 x 189.2 x 7 cm (62 x 74 1/2 x 2 3/4 in.); Unframed: 144 x 176.7 cm (56 11/16 x 69 9/16 in.)

Gift of Rosenberg & Stiebel, Inc. 1958.472

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Description

In 1635, Rosa left his native Naples for Rome, the undisputed art center of the 17th century, where a new type of landscape painting was emerging, distinguished by the effects of light and atmosphere. Rosa’s fame grew quickly as a painter of landscapes that conjured the beauty and fertility of the Bay of Naples. Ruins in a Rocky Landscape incorporates classical ruins, iridescent reflections of light, and a pastoral tone evoked by the idling shepherds, exemplifying the work that earned Rosa his early fame. The dark, dramatic rocks that rise along the left foreshadow the wildness that Rosa would cultivate in his later sublime landscapes.

Inscriptions

Inscription

Signed lower right: "SR [monogram]"

Provenance

Duke Francesco I d’Este, Modena; Duke Francesco V d’Este, Modena and Vienna:

Duke Francis Ferdinand, Vienna;

Maximillian, Duke of Hohenberg, Palace of the Prince of Liechtenstein, Vienna;

Rosenberg & Stiebel (New York, New York), by gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.

Citations

The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. Reproduced: p. 397; Mentioned: p. 396-398

Žakula, Tijana. "Reforming Dutch Art: Gerard del Lairesse on Beauty, Morals and Class." Simiolus 37 (2013-2014): 7-130. Mentioned andreproduced: p. 68, fig. 53

Zakula, Tijana. "Reforming Dutch Art: Gerard de Lairesse on Beauty, Morals, and Class." Simiolus 37, special edition (2013-2014): 8-138. Reproduced: P. 58, fig. 53.

Farina, Viviana. Il giovane Salvator Rosa: gli inizi di un grande maestro del '600 europeo. Monghidoro (BO) - Italy: Con-fine edizioni, dicembre, 2015. Reproduced: P.82, fig.93; P. 136, fig. D49 Cfr.

Loire, Stéphane. Nature et idéal: le paysage à Rome, 1600-1650: album de l'exposition. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 2011. Reproduced: P. 28, fig. 25

Exhibition history

CMA, November 6, 1984-January 6, 1985: "Baroque Imagery, cat. # 40, pp. 70-72, repr. p. 71.

Italy: Pasazzo Ducale di Sassuolo "Disegni da una grande collezione. Maestri Italiani dalle antiche raccolte estensi da Parigi e da Modena" 9/12 - 11/29/98.

Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH (6/13/2008 - 10/19/2008): "Painting the Italian Landscape: Views from the Uffizi"

RMN (organizer). Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris (3/8/2011 - 6/6/2011) and Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid (6/2/2011 - 9/25/2011): "Landscape Painting in Rome, 1600-1650"

The Cleveland Museum of Art (2/15/2015 - 6/14/2015); "The Novel and the Bizarre: Salvator Rosa's Scenes of Witchcraft"

Baroque Imagery. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 6, 1984-January 6, 1985).

Disegni da una grande collezione. Maestri italiani dal XV al XVII secolo delle antiche raccolte estensi di Modena. Palazzo Ducale di Sassuolo (September 12-November 30, 1998).

Painting the Italian Landscape: Views from the Uffizi. Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH (organizer) (June 13-October 19, 2008).

Landscape Painting in Rome, 1600-1650. Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, 75008 Paris, France (March 8-June 6, 2011); Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain (June 27-September 25, 2011).

The Novel and the Bizarre: Salvator Rosa's Scenes of Witchcraft. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 15-June 14, 2015).

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