Rosa's

The novel opens with the winter, and what is probably the darkest time in Rosa's life.

A Conversation with Lily Prior 2010

I love Rosa's erotic fantasies, the early skirmishes between

A Conversation with Lily Prior 2010

Rosa's human figures never smile; instead they seem grim, wary, defiant, sullen or lachrymose.

Return to the Grim and Dark Willard Spiegelman 2011

But beyond appealing to the senses, I hope readers will enjoy the characters, feel heartened by Rosa's resilience, and shed a tear at the end.

A Conversation with Lily Prior 2010

Mr. Rosa's apology comes less than a week after Pennsylvania State University ousted head football coach Joe Paterno after allegations that former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky abused eight boys.

Military College Apologizes for Handling of Abuse Claim Valerie Bauerlein 2011

The Kimbell show groups Rosa's paintings by theme and subject rather than by chronology.

Return to the Grim and Dark Willard Spiegelman 2011

Which is why the Kimbell Museum's "Salvator Rosa: Bandits, Wilderness & Magic," the first major American exhibit of Rosa's paintings, deserves a visit.

Return to the Grim and Dark Willard Spiegelman 2011

Perhaps the two most memorable pictures in the exhibit combine Rosa's novelty of subject matter, his commitment to ancient philosophy and magic, his reimagining of landscape, and his inheritance from his contemporaries.

Return to the Grim and Dark Willard Spiegelman 2011

Popular among Italian intellectuals and free-thinkers, he became even more significant in the following century when the English developed new modes of landscape gardening, and Romantic writers, as well as British collectors, took to Rosa's savage landscapes, and to his bandits, witches and gypsies.

Return to the Grim and Dark Willard Spiegelman 2011

The seasons are significant because each reflects a stage in Rosa's life.

A Conversation with Lily Prior 2010