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Salvator Rosa
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- Book Synopsis
- 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.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781789145731
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books, (11 April 2022)
- Number of Pages
- 240
- Weight
- 582 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 216 x 138 x 20 mm
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