# Grotto with Cascades

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## Artwork

- Artist: [ROSA, Salvator](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rosa-salvator-ra2d6b3228eff53>)
- Date: 1601-1650
- Technique: Oil on canvas, 65 x 49 cm

## Commentary

Its ancient, monumental scale dwarfing the transient humans, this natural rock formation is rendered awesome by the contrast between effulgent light and deep shadows. The scene, with rushing cascade, is not quiet.

## Related artworks

- [A Battle Scene](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rosa-salvator-ra2d6b3228eff53/a-battle-scene-rf28664f9d2a580>)
- [A Friar Tempted by Demons](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rosa-salvator-ra2d6b3228eff53/a-friar-tempted-by-demons-rd9500b10ebb77a>)
- [Anchorites Tempted by Demons](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rosa-salvator-ra2d6b3228eff53/anchorites-tempted-by-demons-r90fa20eeecd2b5>)
- [Democritus in Meditation](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rosa-salvator-ra2d6b3228eff53/democritus-in-meditation-r28879333993d0d>)
- [Democritus in Meditation](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rosa-salvator-ra2d6b3228eff53/democritus-in-meditation-rae1de7d131a2ab>)
- [Diogenes Casting away his Cup](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rosa-salvator-ra2d6b3228eff53/diogenes-casting-away-his-cup-rb2a2eb6bebc0f0>)
- [Evening Landscape](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rosa-salvator-ra2d6b3228eff53/evening-landscape-r5fc303d130ca17>)
- [Harbour with Ruins](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rosa-salvator-ra2d6b3228eff53/harbour-with-ruins-re94f570cce7e15>)
- [Heroic Battle](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rosa-salvator-ra2d6b3228eff53/heroic-battle-r42a294f874c391>)
- [Human Fragility](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rosa-salvator-ra2d6b3228eff53/human-fragility-r3e2ea4230623f6>)
- [Marine Landscape with Towers](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rosa-salvator-ra2d6b3228eff53/marine-landscape-with-towers-rac51484ea09de1>)
- [Odysseus and Nausicaa](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rosa-salvator-ra2d6b3228eff53/odysseus-and-nausicaa-readf3b8d745113>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)