Diogenes and Alexander, Salvator Rosa, artist, 1662, Italy, etching, Although famous and influential as a painter of haunting, rugged landscapes which make him regarded as a 'Romantic' nearly 200 years before his time, Salvator Rosa was also a significant etcher. This is an ambitious subject for an etching and would be equally appropriate as a larger 'historical genre' painting. Like its 'other half', Alexander and Apelles, also in Te Papa's collection (1965-0001-23), it relates to episodes in the life of Alexander the Great.
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