Salvator Rosa: Paint and Performance
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Witchcraft, divination and violent encounters occupy the darker reaches of Salvator Rosa’s art. Helen Langdon’s biography places these subjects within the ambitions of a painter who was also a poet and actor, and who wanted his work to be taken seriously as a form of thought.
The book follows Rosa’s public identity, his efforts to reach an audience and his response to the intellectual life of seventeenth-century Italy. Its 65 illustrations support an account that connects unusual imagery with the developing taste for the sublime. This is a particularly close fit for Dark Gloomy Art: a study of how unsettling pictures were made, understood and presented long before modern horror acquired its familiar forms. Rosa’s performances and ambitions give the paintings a human setting as compelling as their atmosphere.
Book Details
- Author / editor: Helen Langdon
- Publisher: Reaktion Books
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9781789145731
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