Salvator Rosa

Mrs.R. has been called the Salvator Rosa of British novelists.

A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature 1853

As the shadows of evening began to fall, rough torches of pine wood were lighted and shed a glare such as Salvator Rosa loved to kindle, upon a scene such as he delighted to paint.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 Various

Horace Walpole, whose 1764 "Castle of Otranto" initiated the craze for the Gothic novel in England, wrote of the scenery on his 1739 Alpine tour: "Precipices, mountains, wolves, torrents, rumblings — Salvator Rosa."

Return to the Grim and Dark Willard Spiegelman 2011

The pictorial models were the landscapes of Salvator Rosa, nicknamed "Savage Rosa" by the poet James Thomson; the "majestic" scenes of Poussin and the idylls of Claude.

A passion for painting in the Lake District 2011

Instead, throughout much of the Romantic Age, Salvator Rosa 1615-1673 was the name on every collector's lips.

Return to the Grim and Dark Willard Spiegelman 2011

"Salvator Rosa (1615-73): Bandits, Wilderness and Magic" shows paintings by the Italian Baroque artist, poet and printmaker, know for his rebellious attitude and mystical motifs.

Time Off 2010

Radcliffe had never seen the mountains or lush Italian countryside she described, but was inspired by the landscape paintings of Claude Lorraine and Salvator Rosa.

Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823) 2008

Owenson published The Mohawks: a Satirical Poem (co-authored with her husband) in 1822, a biography of the painter Salvator Rosa in 1824, and an essay titled Absenteeism in the same year.

Women writers - Sydney Owenson 2008

Another more celebrated fantasist was Salvator Rosa — a man who, for reasons which are now entirely incomprehensible, was regarded by the critics of four and five generations ago as a great artist.

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The Baron of Avenel was one of those tall, muscular, martial figures, which are the favourite subjects of Salvator Rosa.

The Monastery 2008