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Salvator Rosa

Paint and Performance

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

Av Helen Langdon

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2022-04-11
Mått138 x 216 x 20 mm
Vikt582 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieRenaissance Lives
Antal sidor240
FörlagReaktion Books
ISBN9781789145731

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London-based art historian Langdon has been studying baroque painter Salvator Rosa (1615–73) for almost fifty years and yet maintains a critical distance from her subject, for whom at times she implies a soupçon of distaste. She intends her well-illustrated introduction to the painter, etcher, and poet – a reluctant outsider in Rome, disgruntled and boastful, a thorn in the side of Bernini, and an aspirant to intellectual status along the lines of Poussin – to appeal to an audience that includes beginners. At the same time, because of her deep and thorough engagement with the subject, scholars will not want to ignore this summary with its glinting insights . . . Recommended.