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SALVATOR ROSA The Fall of the Giants.
Etching and drypoint, 1663. 720x475 mm; 28 1/2x19 inches, wide margins. Initials PM watermark. Second state (of 2). A fine impression with the added drypoint distinct, with strong contrasts and little to no sign of wear.
According to Wallace, "Rosa (1615-1673) clearly borrowed the overall composition of [Bartolomeo Coriolano's, 1599-1676, same-titled woodcut, a piled up, cone-like mass of intermingled boulders and bodies capped with clouds surrounding the flying figure of Zeus. In addition, the figure supporting a boulder at the lower right corner of Rosa's etching and the very similar running figure at the center of the lower left corner of the [chiaroscuro woodcut] print are both very like the rock-bearing figure near the left center of the woodcut."
Rosa's inscription at lower center quotes the 4th century Latin poet Claudian. It translates: "They are raised up high that they may be hurled down in more terrible ruin." Bartsch 21; Wallace 115.
