Salvator Rosa: Paint and Performance (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781789145731)

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.

Author: Helen Langdon
ISBN-10: 1789145732
ISBN-13: 9781789145731
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Language: English
Published: 07/06/2022
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.70w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2023