Salvator Rosa is best known today as an Italian Baroque painter, whose romanticised landscapes and history paintings, often set in dark and untamed nature, exerted considerable influence from the 17th
Self Portrait (c. 1650s), oil on canvas, 75 x 62.5 cm., Detroit Institute of Art.
Self-portrait (c. 1645), oil on canvas, 61 x 45 cm., (Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg)
Portrait of Lucrezia Paolini (c. 1656–1660), oil on canvas, 66 x 50.5 cm., Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica
Self-Portrait (c. 1647), oil on canvas, 91 x 79.4 cm., Metropolitan Museum of Art. Rosa inscribes the Greek words "Behold, whither, when" while contemplating a skull
Empedocles was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher and a native citizen of Akragas, a Greek city in Sicily. Empedocles' philosophy is known best for originating the cosmogonic theory of the four classica
Salvator Rosa
…Institute of Arts St. Anthony Abbot and St. Paul the Hermit (c. 1660–1665), oil on canvas, 67.3 x 49.9 cm., National Gallery of Scotland The Death of Empedocles (c. 1665–1670), oil on canvas, 135 x 99 cm., private collection Tobias and the Angel (c. 1670), oil on canvas, 121 x 195 cm., Musée des Beaux-Arts de…
Empedocles, 17th-century engraving
The Death of Empedocles by Salvator Rosa (1615–1673), depicting the legendary alleged suicide of Empedocles jumping into Mount Etna in Sicily
Empedocles' theory four elements (fire, air, water and earth), woodcut from a 1472 edition of Lucretius' De rerum natura