Object Details
Artist
Salvator Rosa
Date
17th Century
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Image: 39 1/2 x 54 3/4 inches (100.3 x 139.1 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Louis V. Keeler, Class of 1911, and Eva P. Keeler
Object
Number
86.003
Salvator Rosa, born in Naples, knew well the province of Campania that Pliny the Elder so treasured,(…)
Salvator Rosa, born in Naples, knew well the province of Campania that Pliny the Elder so treasured, home also to Pompeii and Herculaneum. Many of Rosa’s windswept landscape paintings, like this one, resonate with Pliny’s description of Campania.
(Andrew C. Wiselogel, “Wonder and Wakefulness: The Nature of Pliny the Elder,” exhibition organized by the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, curated by Andrew C. Weislogel and Verity J. Platt, presented at the Johnson Museum January 21–June 11, 2023)
