Bandits on a Rocky Coast, 1655?60, Oil on canvas, 29 1/2 x 39 3/8 in. (74. 9 x 100 cm), Paintings, Salvator Rosa (Italian, Arenella (Naples) 1615?1673 Rome), Neapolitan by birth, Salvator Rosa spent most of his life between Florence and Rome. He developed a particular type of landscape that became especially popular in the following centuries. It is typical for Rosa to place groups of small figures, in the guise usually of bandits or soldiers, within the context of rugged and menacing landscapes