Fury personified as an emaciated man astride a monster, holding a skull in his raised left hand
Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio Italian
After Rosso Fiorentino Italian
Not on view
One of Caraglio’s most successful collaborations in Rome in the 1520s was with the Florentine artist Rosso Fiorentino. Rosso spent most of his time in Rome creating designs for prints that were commissioned by the art dealer and publisher Il Baviera (Baviera Carocci da Parma, Italian, active ca. 1515–30). The publisher seems to have been an entrepreneur in commissioning print series, and Rosso and Caraglio worked together on his series of Gods in Niches, The Labors of Hercules, and The Loves of the Gods. Caraglio also translated some individual compositions by Rosso into prints, including Fury. The unconventional image signals Rosso’s expressive nature and the fact that, as an artist, he was not strictly “in pursuit of beauty.” Caraglio’s sharp tonality fits the gloominess of the subject and the composition originally created by the Florentine.
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