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Thursday, June 28, 2012

Salvatore Rosa, Autoritratto, 1656

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Salvatore Rose makes a learned allusion to his perseverance in the face of hardships by showing himself crowned with cypress (an emblem of mourning), writing the Greek words for "Behold, wither, when". The picture was given to his good friend and moral philosopher Giovanni Battista Ricciardi.

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