Salvator Rosa : Paint and Performance / Helen Langdon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Langdon, Susan Helen, 1952- author.

Series:

Renaissance lives.

Renaissance Lives Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Painters--Italy--Early modern, 1500-1700--Biography.

Painters.

Poets, Italian--Early modern, 1500-1700--Biography.

Poets, Italian.

Rosa, Salvatore, 1615-1673.

Rosa, Salvatore.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (239 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London, England : Reaktion Books Ltd, [2022]

Summary:

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 Rosas 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.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Introduction

1. Salvatoriello Goes to Rome

2. Courtier and Painter-poet

3. Fortune and Envy

4. Magic, Prophecy and Terror

Epilogue

Chronology

References

Select Bibliography

Acknowledgements

Photo Acknowledgements

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Langdon, Helen Salvator Rosa

ISBN:

9781789145748