Salvator Rosa: Paint and Performance

by Helen Langdon

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1789145732
• ISBN13: 9781789145731
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.6"