Salvator Rosa: Paint and Performance - Couverture rigide

Langdon, Helen

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1789145732 ISBN 13 : 9781789145731

Editeur : Reaktion Books, 2022

Synopsis

'Helen Langdon takes on the intriguing figure of Salvator Rosa in this definitive account of the multi-talented - but still elusive - artist (painter and etcher), writer and actor.' - Christopher Brown, former director of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

'[this] superb biography . . . presents the artist in all his brilliance and wit, his vaulting ambition, his potent originality as a painter and his infuriating complexity as a person.' - Gabriele Finaldi, Director of the National Gallery, London

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Helen Langdon is an art historian with a special interest in the Italian Baroque. She is author of Claude Lorrain (1989) and Caravaggio: A Life (1999) and is based in London.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Reaktion Books
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1789145732
• ISBN 13: 9781789145731
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible