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Salvator Rosa: Paint and Performance: Renaissance Lives

Autor Helen Langdon
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 6 iul 2022

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.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781789145731
ISBN-10: 1789145732
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: 51 color plates, 14 halftones
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Editura: REAKTION BOOKS
Colecția Reaktion Books
Seria Renaissance Lives


Notă biografică

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


Recenzii

"In his passionate defense of the creative autonomy of the artist, Salvator Rosa strikes us as astoundingly modern. Langdon’s superb biography, born of more than half a century of reflection on Rosa, 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."

"Langdon takes on the intriguing figure of Salvator Rosa in this definitive account of the multitalented—but still elusive—artist (painter and etcher), writer, and actor. She is very much at home in the complex world of artistic debate in seventeenth-century Rome and deeply sympathetic to this difficult and ultimately disappointed ‘genius,' as he described himself, who aspired to be a philosopher-painter and satirist."

"Langdon’s engrossing presentation of the eccentric, conceited, and phenomenally talented Salvator Rosa restores one of Baroque Italy’s most illustrious artists to his rightful place among the seventeenth century’s absolute protagonists. Rosa’s phantasmagoric landscapes, home to strange animals, Etruscan priests, and weird witches, were once a must for every ambitious collector, but his most towering work of art, as Langdon suggests, may have been his own remarkable life."

"In his passionate defense of the creative autonomy of the artist, Salvator Rosa strikes us as astoundingly modern. Langdon’s superb biography, born of more than half a century of reflection on Rosa, 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."