Polycrates' Crucifixion

A native of Naples, Salvator Rosa settled in Rome in 1649, producing dramatic works regarded as counterparts to the calm, classical landscapes of his contemporaries Claude Lorrain and Nicolas Poussin. Rosa’s landscapes present nature as wild, filled with striking effects of light, jagged cliffs, and dark grottoes. These qualities underline the eerie mood in his depiction of the death of Polycrates, ruler of the Greek island of Samos. Together with its companion piece Polycrates and the Fisherman, it illustrates the king’s inability to escape the ups and downs of fortune to which all humans are subject.

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Self-Portrait

Prodigal Son

Bataille héroïque (La Bataille d'Eurymédon)

Paysage rocheux avec un chasseur et des guerriers

Bandits on a Rocky Coast

The Dream of Aeneas

Democritus and Protagoras

Odysseus and Nausicaa (Ulysses and Nausicaa)

Landscape with Saint John on Patmos, 1640

Panthea, Cyrus, and Araspas, 1631-34

Meekness, 1650

View of Delphi with a Procession, 1673

Bust of Diana, c. 1692–93

Polycrates and the Fisherman, 1664

Christ Receiving the Children, c. 1655

The Shipwreck, 1638/41

White Crucifixion, 1938

Christus am Kreuz, 1627

Portrait of a Noblewoman Dressed in Mourning, c. 1600

Saint Francis Kneeling in Meditation, c. 1595–c. 1600

Crucifix, 1230/40

Retable and Frontal of the Life of Christ and the Virgin, 1396

Triptych with Scenes from the Life of Christ, 1350/75

Processional Cross with Saint Mary Magdalene and a Blessed Hermit, 1392/95