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Polycrates and the Fisherman, Salvator Rosa
Polycrates and the Fisherman, 1664

Salvator Rosa

1615–1673 · Baroque · 8 works

Salvator Rosa of Naples was one of the least conventional artists of 1600s Italy. Mainly a landscape painter, he also painted portraits, allegories and scenes of witchcraft, made etchings and wrote satires. He worked in Florence in the 1640s before returning to Rome, where he died, and the painters of the Romantic movement later took him as a hero.

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8 works · 1656–1664

Original museum reproductions, with source records on every artwork page.

Artist information: National Gallery.

Public-domain art. An imagined museum; no museum affiliation.