Salvator Rosa : Paint and Performance Hardback
by Helen Langdon
Part of the Renaissance Lives series
Hardback
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.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:224 pages, 65 illustrations, 51 in colour
- Publisher:Reaktion Books
- Publication Date:11/04/2022
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- ISBN:9781789145731
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Information
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:224 pages, 65 illustrations, 51 in colour
- Publisher:Reaktion Books
- Publication Date:11/04/2022
- Category:
- ISBN:9781789145731