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Details
- Date
- circa 1662
- Media category
- Materials used
- etching
- Edition
- 2/2
- Dimensions
- 47.3 x 72.2 cm
- Credit
- Purchased 1979
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 231.1979
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Salvator Rosa
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About
The inscription reads: 'Polycrates, the tyrant of Samos, famous for his wealth and good fortune, when he was captured by Oretes, Satrap of the Persians, and fastened on a cross showed that no one can truly be said to be happy until he is dead'. The subject, derived from the account of Polycrates' life and death in Herodotus, was an unusually learned one in the art of the time.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 3 exhibitions
Piety and Paganism, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 13 Jul 1991–29 Sep 1991
Mantegna to Piranesi - Italian Old Master Prints from the Collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 27 Jun 1998–20 Sep 1998
Old Europe: Prints & drawings from the collection 1500-1800, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 03 Jun 2006–06 Aug 2006
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Bibliography
Referenced in 2 publications
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Nicholas Draffin, Piety and Paganism, Sydney, 1991, 10. no catalogue numbers
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Peter Raissis, Mantegna to Piranesi - Italian old master prints from the collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1998, 8. no catalogue numbers
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