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| Self-Portrait |
Artist:Salvator Rosa (Italian, Arenella (Naples) 1615–1673 Rome)
Date:ca. 1647
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:39 x 31 1/4 in. (99.1 x 79.4 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Bequest of Mary L. Harrison, 1921
Accession Number:21.105
One of the most fascinating and complex personalities in seventeenth-century Italy, Salvator Rosa was an accomplished painter, printmaker, poet, and actor. Here he shows himself inscribing a skull with the Greek words: “Behold, whither, when.” The wreath of cypress is an emblem of mourning, while on the table is a book by the Roman stoic philosopher Seneca. According to the inscription, the picture was a gift to Rosa’s friend Giovanni Battista Ricciardi (1624–1686), a brilliant man of letters from Pisa.
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