id: 135483
accession number: 1958.472
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Ruins in a Rocky Landscape, c. 1640. Salvator Rosa (Italian, 1615–1673). Oil on canvas; framed: 157.5 x 189.2 x 7 cm (62 x 74 1/2 x 2 3/4 in.); unframed: 144 x 176.7 cm (56 11/16 x 69 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Rosenberg & Stiebel, Inc. 1958.472
title: Ruins in a Rocky Landscape
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creation date: c. 1640
creation date earliest: 1635
creation date latest: 1645
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creditline: Gift of Rosenberg & Stiebel, Inc.
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culture: Italy, 17th century
technique: oil on canvas
department: European Painting and Sculpture
collection: P - Italian 16th & 17th Century
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Salvator Rosa (Italian, 1615–1673) - artist
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measurements: Framed: 157.5 x 189.2 x 7 cm (62 x 74 1/2 x 2 3/4 in.); Unframed: 144 x 176.7 cm (56 11/16 x 69 9/16 in.)
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inscription: Signed lower right: "SR [monogram]"
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Baroque Imagery
opening date: 1984-11-06T05:00:00
Baroque Imagery. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 6, 1984-January 6, 1985).
title: Disegni da una grande collezione. Maestri italiani dal XV al XVII secolo delle antiche raccolte estensi di Modena
opening date: 1998-09-12T00:00:00
Disegni da una grande collezione. Maestri italiani dal XV al XVII secolo delle antiche raccolte estensi di Modena. Palazzo Ducale di Sassuolo (September 12-November 30, 1998).
title: Painting the Italian Landscape: Views from the Uffizi
opening date: 2008-06-13T00:00:00
Painting the Italian Landscape: Views from the Uffizi. Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH (organizer) (June 13-October 19, 2008).
title: Landscape Painting in Rome, 1600-1650
opening date: 2011-03-08T00:00:00
Landscape Painting in Rome, 1600-1650. Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, 75008 Paris, France (March 8-June 6, 2011); Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain (June 27-September 25, 2011).
title: The Novel and the Bizarre: Salvator Rosa's Scenes of Witchcraft
opening date: 2015-02-15T00:00:00
The Novel and the Bizarre: Salvator Rosa's Scenes of Witchcraft. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 15-June 14, 2015).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* CMA, November 6, 1984-January 6, 1985: "Baroque Imagery, cat. # 40, pp. 70-72, repr. p. 71.
Italy: Pasazzo Ducale di Sassuolo "Disegni da una grande collezione. Maestri Italiani dalle antiche raccolte estensi da Parigi e da Modena" 9/12 - 11/29/98.
Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH (6/13/2008 - 10/19/2008): "Painting the Italian Landscape: Views from the Uffizi"
RMN (organizer). Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris (3/8/2011 - 6/6/2011) and Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid (6/2/2011 - 9/25/2011): "Landscape Painting in Rome, 1600-1650"
The Cleveland Museum of Art (2/15/2015 - 6/14/2015); "The Novel and the Bizarre: Salvator Rosa's Scenes of Witchcraft"
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PROVENANCE
Duke Francesco I d’Este, Modena; Duke Francesco V d’Este, Modena and Vienna:
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Duke Francis Ferdinand, Vienna;
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Maximillian, Duke of Hohenberg, Palace of the Prince of Liechtenstein, Vienna;
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Rosenberg & Stiebel (New York, New York), by gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
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In 1635, Rosa left his native Naples for Rome, the undisputed art center of the 17th century, where a new type of landscape painting was emerging, distinguished by the effects of light and atmosphere. Rosa’s fame grew quickly as a painter of landscapes that conjured the beauty and fertility of the Bay of Naples. Ruins in a Rocky Landscape incorporates classical ruins, iridescent reflections of light, and a pastoral tone evoked by the idling shepherds, exemplifying the work that earned Rosa his early fame. The dark, dramatic rocks that rise along the left foreshadow the wildness that Rosa would cultivate in his later sublime landscapes.
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CITATIONS
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982.
page number: Reproduced: p. 397; Mentioned: p. 396-398
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Žakula, Tijana. "Reforming Dutch Art: Gerard del Lairesse on Beauty, Morals and Class." Simiolus 37 (2013-2014): 7-130.
page number: Mentioned andreproduced: p. 68, fig. 53
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Zakula, Tijana. "Reforming Dutch Art: Gerard de Lairesse on Beauty, Morals, and Class." Simiolus 37, special edition (2013-2014): 8-138.
page number: Reproduced: P. 58, fig. 53.
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Farina, Viviana. Il giovane Salvator Rosa: gli inizi di un grande maestro del '600 europeo. Monghidoro (BO) - Italy: Con-fine edizioni, dicembre, 2015.
page number: Reproduced: P.82, fig.93; P. 136, fig. D49 Cfr.
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Loire, Stéphane. Nature et idéal: le paysage à Rome, 1600-1650: album de l'exposition. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 2011.
page number: Reproduced: P. 28, fig. 25
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