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In the grip of a terrible beauty Salvator Rosa was the wild man of baroque art, a romantic 200 years before his time. Michael Prodger reviews a new show of his work

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From: The Sunday Telegraph London
Date: 20050814
Author:Michael Prodger

In the 18th and early 19th centuries the dramatic landscapes of the Italian painter Salvator Rosa (1615-73) were so well known that Horace Walpole, writing in 1739, could summon up the excitement and danger of crossing the Alps in just seven words: "Precipices, mountains, torrents, wolves, rumblings - Salvator Rosa.'' Everyone knew just what he meant. If the paintings of Claude Lorraine represented the ideal of nature at its calmest and most Arcadian, then Salvator was the man who portrayed it at its wildest and most thrilling: the one all limpid serenity and dreaming vistas, the other all ...

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