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.
ISBN: | 9781789145731 |
Publication date: | 11th April 2022 |
Author: | Helen Langdon |
Publisher: | Reaktion Books |
Format: | Hardback |
Pagination: | 240 pages |
Series: | Renaissance Lives |
Genres: |
Individual artists, art monographs Biography: arts and entertainment Literary studies: poetry and poets |