Salvator Rosa - Selfportrait with skull [1647]

Salvator Rosa -

Self-portrait, contemplating and inscribing a skull [1647]

Metmuseum

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A meaningfull translation of the three greek words might be:

“Behold whither, eventually.”

An interpretation is:

The skull is the object of the sitter’s contemplation, and inscription: “Behold, whither (I, we, you, mankind, etc., is going) sometime"

 

 

 

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