Salvator Rosa: Paint and Performance - Hardcover
by Helen Langdon (Author)
A compelling biography of the Renaissance painter, known equally for his magnetic personality and unusual subject matter: witchcraft and the sublime.
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 preeminent philosopher-painter of his age. This new biography 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.Helen Langdon is an art historian with a special interest in the Italian Baroque. She is the author of Claude Lorrain and Caravaggio: A Life and is based in London.
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