巨人的陨落 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	巨人的陨落
品名（英）	The Fall of the Giants
入馆年号	1924年，24.63.1829
策展部门	绘画和印刷品（Drawings and Prints）
创作者	Salvator Rosa【1615 至 1673】【意大利人】
创作年份	公元 1663
创作地区
分类	印刷品（Prints）
尺寸	Plate: 28 3/8 × 18 9/16 英寸 (72 × 47.1 厘米) 页: 29 15/16 × 20 3/8 英寸 (76 × 51.7 厘米)
介绍（中）	根据古典神话，黄金时代之后是白银时代，然后通过青铜时代衰落到邪恶的铁器时代。在铁器时代末期，兄弟与兄弟作战。正如奥维德在他的《变形记》的开头所写的那样："正义逃离了血腥的大地......天堂并不安全。巨人袭击了天堂的宝座，将皮利翁堆积在奥萨，一座山，一座山，直到星星。乔夫用霹雳将他们击倒。救世主罗莎的灵感来自朱利奥·罗马诺（Giulio Romano）在曼图亚特宫（Palazzo del Te）创作这幅异常大的版画时著名的巨人陨落壁画。有十几张幸存的蚀刻准备图纸，表明罗莎在制作中付出的努力。虽然罗莎在作品"救世主罗莎Inv. pinx"上签名，但蚀刻并非来自一幅画。在给朋友里卡迪的一封信中，罗莎感叹道："即使是像巨人队这样的幻想曲也不足以让任何人渴望看到它被描绘出来。罗莎获得了他梦寐以求的绘画委托，他使用蚀刻来探索让他着迷的宏大哲学和神话主题，但令失望的是，看到这一戏剧性插曲的潜在赞助人没有要求画一幅主题。罗莎献词的铭文，"他被高高举起，他可能会被扔在更严重的废墟中"，来自克劳迪安·克劳迪安努斯（Claudian Claudianus）的《反对鲁菲努斯的第一本书》，克劳迪安·克劳迪亚努斯（Claudian Claudianus）通常被称为古典罗马的最后一位诗人。这句话将狂妄的巨人的垮台与残忍贪婪的暴君鲁菲努斯的命运联系起来，鲁菲努斯的统治也被描绘成黄金时代的结束。
介绍（英）	According to classical mythology, after the Golden Age came the Silver Age and then declined through the Bronze Age to the wicked Age of Iron. At the end of the Iron Age, brother fought against brother. As Ovid writes in the beginning of his Metamorphoses 'Justice fled from the bloody earth ... Heaven was no safer. Giants attacked the very throne of Heaven, piled Pelion on Ossa, mountain on mountain, up to the very stars. Jove struck them down with thunderbolts.' Salvator Rosa was inspired by Giulio Romano's famous fresco of the Fall of the Giants in the Palazzo del Te in Mantua when he created this unusually large print. There are more than a dozen surviving preparatory drawings for the etching, indicating the effort that Rosa put into its production. Although Rosa signed the work 'Salvator Rosa Inv. pinx', the etching is not derived from a painting. In a letter to his friend Ricciardi, Rosa lamented that 'even a fantasia like the Giants hasn't been sufficient to create the desire in anyone to see it painted.' Obtaining few of the painting commissions that he coveted, Rosa used etching to explore the grand philosophical and mythological themes that fascinated him, yet was disappointed that prospective patrons who saw this dramatic episode in print did not request a painting of the subject. The inscription attached to Rosa's dedication, 'he is raised aloft that he may be hurled down in more headlong ruin,' is from The First Book Against Rufinus by Claudian Claudianus, often called the last poet of classical Rome. This quotation links the downfall of the presumptuous Giants to the fate of the cruel and greedy tyrant Rufinus, whose reign was also portrayed as the end of a Golden Age.