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Salvator Rosa: Scenes of Witchcraft: Night | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Artist |
Salvator Rosa |
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Title |
Scenes of Witchcraft: Night |
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Part of | Scenes of Witchcraft | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Object type | painting | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Description |
In the pitch black of night, two groups of men are gathered in a forest. To the left, travelers apprehensively pause to watch a magician conjure terrifying apparitions reminiscent of Callot's diverse, demonic monsters in The Temptation of Saint Anthony. Since the Middle Ages, necromancy, the act of communing with the dead, was associated with male sorcerers. In Rosa's painting, the wizened necromancer who stands tall and resolute directly below a classical column is reminiscent of Moses, a predecessor to Renaissance depictions of sorcerers. Rosa's learned magicians not only invoke associations with philosophers and intellects, but they would have also referred to the artist himself and the intellectual elite with whom he associated in Florence. Just as a powerful magician could conjure strange creatures with his wand, so too could Rosa shape a strange world with his originality, intelligence, and the skillful use of paint and brush. |
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Date |
1640 date QS:P571,+1640-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Medium |
oil on canvas medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259 |
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Dimensions | Framed: 76.2 x 9.6 cm (30 x 3 3/4 in.); Unframed: 54.5 cm (21 7/16 in.) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q657415 |
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Current location |
European Painting and Sculpture |
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Accession number |
1977.37.4 |
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Place of creation | Italy, 17th century | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Credit line | Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund | |||||||||||||||||||||||
References | https://clevelandart.org/art/1977.37.4 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Source/Photographer | https://clevelandart.org/art/1977.37.4 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Author | Chief Photographer, Howard Agriesti |
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Copyright holder | |
Credit/Provider | Howard Agriesti, Cleveland Museum of Art |
Source | Cleveland Museum of Art |
Online copyright statement | http://www.clevelandart.org |
City shown | Cleveland |
Date and time of data generation | 15:04, 17 November 2014 |
Contact information |
Cleveland Museum of Art11150 East Blvd Cleveland, OH, 44106 USA |
Original transmission location code | 2014-11-1735 |
Date and time of digitizing | 15:04, 17 November 2014 |
Software used | Sinar CaptureFlow |
Date metadata was last modified | 04:06, 4 December 2014 |
File change date and time | 04:06, 4 December 2014 |
Unique ID of original document | xmp.did:b13d028a-05fc-40e9-ad2b-8084f7994c6c |
Sublocation of city shown | Cleveland Museum of Art |
Country shown | USA |
Province or state shown | OH |