Philipp Peter Roos
{{short description|German painter}}
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{{Infobox artist
| name = Philipp Peter Roos
| image = Jean Baptiste Descamps-Philippe Roos p319.gif
| caption = Philippe Roos in artist biography by Jean-Baptiste Descamps in 1760.
| birth_name = Filipp
| birth_date = 1655
| birth_place = Frankfurt am Main
| death_date = {{death year and age|1706|1651}}
| death_place = Tivoli, Italy
| nationality = German
| field = Painting
| movement = Baroque
| website =
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Philipp Peter Roos (later surnamed Rosa di Tivoli;{{Cite NIE|wstitle=Roos, Johann Heinrich|year=1905}} 1655–1706) was a German Baroque painter, active in and near Rome from 1677 onward.
Biography
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He was born in Sankt Goar and learned to paint from his father, the landscape painter Johann Heinrich Roos.{{in lang|nl}} [http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/houb005groo01_01/houb005groo01_01_0294.htm Filip Roos biography] in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature He was the brother of the painter Johann Melchior Roos, who briefly worked with him in Italy.[https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/68072 Johann Melchior Roos] in the RKD As a young man, he painted in the style of his father. He was called to paint for Charles I, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, who liked him so much he gave him a sum of money to travel to Rome with, which he did in 1677.
In Rome, he worked often in the studio of Giacinto Brandi, and by 1681 had fallen in love with his daughter, for whom he converted to Catholicism and later married. In 1683, he joined a papal guild of painters, the Congregation of Virtuiosi al Pantheon.[http://www.tibursuperbum.it/ita/storia/personaggi/RosadaTivoli.htm# Tivoli e dintorni], Comune Tourism site, illustrious persons, short biography. In 1684, he acquired a large house on Vicolo del Riserraglio in the Rione San Paolo in Tivoli, near Rome, whence his surname.Tivoli e dintorni. In Tivoli, they kept a menagerie of various animals so Roos could draw from live poses. This house was called the "Noah's Ark" by their friends. In his Italian style, he painted life-size figures and animals in a broad manner and a heavy brown tone.
In 1691, he moved back to Rome, where he was one of the Bentvueghels painters in the Schildersbent, a grouping of painters from the Low Countries. He had the nickname "Mercurius" because of the rapidity with which he painted; Mercury was the speedy messenger of Zeus. The Schildersbent were often denied official commissions, and had to struggle for a living. Roos often paid for food and lodging with paintings. He earned money making small paintings and sketches for tourists. He died in poverty.Tivoli e Dintorni
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Works
Roos became an expert in oxen, sheep, and goats. He specialized in Italianate landscapes decorated with animals.[https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/68081 Philipp Peter Roos] in the RKD
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Category:German Baroque painters
Category:Italian painters of animals
Category:Artists from Frankfurt
Category:Members of the Bentvueghels
Category:17th-century German painters
Category:18th-century German painters
Category:18th-century German male artists