Study for Polycrates’ Crucifixion
Salvator Rosa
1657–1667
- Medium
- Pen and brown iron gall ink on tan laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- 13.2 × 6.7 cm (5 1/4 × 2 11/16 in.)
- Genre
- prints and drawing
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
drawings (visual works)prints and drawingpaper (fiber product)
About
A painter, draftsman, and printmaker, as well as a satirical poet and actor, Salvator Rosa was one of the most idiosyncratic Roman artists of the 17th century. This rare subject, related to both a painting and a large etching in the Art Institute’s collection, is of the crucifixion in 522 b.c. of the wealthy and greedy tyrant of Samos, Polycrates, who incited the envy of the Persian viceroy of Sardis, Oroetes, to his peril.
