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A Date for Salvator Rosa's Satire on Painting and the Bamboccianti in Rome

1981; College Art Association; Volume: 63; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/00043079.1981.10787924

1559-6478

Wendy Wassyng Roworth,

Historical Influence and Diplomacy

Salvator Rosa's Satire on Painting, which castigates the corrupt state of the art, especially those low-life painters, the Barnboccianti, has never been firmly dated. Scholars have assumed he wrote it in Florence in the mid-1640's, but this article shows through documentary evidence, as well as an analysis of stylistic changes in his paintings, that Rosa composed it in the second half of 1650, after his return to Rome. This date coincides with a renewed interest in the Bamboccianti by Roman patrons and the consequent resentment by serious painters such as Rosa, who considered himself a painter-philosopher and desired acceptance by the academic establishment, whose views on painting his Satire parallels.