1645
oil
canvas
From the collection of Art Institute of Chicago
Landscape with Rock and Fortress is a 1645 oil by Domenico Gargiulo, a Baroque work, held at Art Institute of Chicago.
This painting shows a landscape with a rock and a fortress. It's an Italian landscape from the 1600s. The artist used a lot of detail to show the texture of the rock and the walls of the fortress, which is interesting because it shows how much care he put into the painting. To learn more, look up the technique of chiaroscuro.
Admiral of the Fleet, Lord Walter T. Kerr (died 1927), Brocket Hall, Hertfordshire; sold Brocket Hall, Hertfordshire, March 7, 1923, lot 326, as Salvator Rosa. Galerie Sanct Lucas, Vienna, by 1958; sold to the Art Institute, 1958.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), 403. Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, Mass., 1972), 117, 571.
Read the full account in the museum source.
Domenico Gargiulo called Micco Spadaro (c. 1609 or 1610 – c. 1675) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, mainly active in Naples and known for his landscapes, genre scenes, and history paintings.
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