Salvator Rosa
Paint and Performance
Published on 11. April 2022
1 pages
978-1-78914-574-8 (ISBN)
Description
Painter, poet and actor Salvator Rosa was one of the most engaging and charismatic personalities of seventeenth-century Italy. Although a gifted landscape painter, he longed to be seen as the pre-eminent philosopher-painter of his age. This new account traces Rosa's strategies of self-promotion, and his creation of a new kind of audience for his art. The book describes the startling novelty of his subject-matter - witchcraft and divination, as well as prophecies, natural magic and dark violence - and his early exploration of a nascent aesthetic of the sublime.
Salvator Rosa shows how the artist, in a series of remarkable works, responded to new movements in thought and feeling, creating images that spoke to the deepest concerns of his age.
Salvator Rosa shows how the artist, in a series of remarkable works, responded to new movements in thought and feeling, creating images that spoke to the deepest concerns of his age.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
File size
23,38 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78914-574-8 (9781789145748)
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Book
04/2022
Reaktion Books
€25.00
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Person
Helen Langdon is an art historian with a special interest in the Italian Baroque. She is author of Claude Lorrain (1989) and Caravaggio: A Life (1999) and is based in London.
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Salvatoriello Goes to Rome
- 2. Courtier and Painter-poet
- 3. Fortune and Envy
- 4. Magic, Prophecy and Terror
- Epilogue
- Chronology
- References
- Select Bibliography
- Acknowledgements
- Photo Acknowledgements
- Index
