Salvator Rosa - Paint and Performance

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.

About the author

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.

Summary

A new biography of the Italian Renaissance painter, poet and actor Salvator Rosa.

Product details

• Authors: Helen Langdon, Langdon Helen
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2022
• EAN: 9781789145731
• ISBN: 978-1-78914-573-1
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Renaissance Lives
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, ART / Individual Artists / Monographs, Biography: arts & entertainment, History of Art, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Italian, Renaissance art, Individual artists, art monographs, Renaissance style, Biography: arts and entertainment, Literary studies: poetry and poets, ART / History / European / Renaissance