Rosa da Tivoli's pictures usually represent pastoral subjects, with
herdsmen and cattle, or shepherds with sheep and goats, which he
frequently painted as large as life. He designed everything from nature,
not only his animals, but the sites of his landscapes, ruins, buildings,
rocks, precipices, rivers, etc. His groups are composed with great
judgment and taste, and his landscapes, backgrounds, skies, and
distances are treated in a masterly style. His cattle and animals, in
particular, are designed with wonderful truth and spirit; his coloring
is full of force, his lights and shadows are distributed with judgment
and his touch is remarkably firm and spirited.