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Salvator Rosa
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Salvator Rosa
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.
Salvator Rosa
Salvator Rosa (1615-1673) was one of the boldest and most powerfully inventive artists and personalities of the Italian seventeenth century. He is still best known as `savage Rosa', the creator of wild landscapes, where bandits and hermits lurk amongst shattered trees and rocks. But his range was wide, and he also painted novel allegorical pictures, distinguished by a melancholy poetry; fanciful portraits of romantic figures; macabre witchcraft scenes, which remain amongst the most bizarre images in all seventeenth-century art; rare scenes from ancient history and from the lives of the ancient philosophers, which brought into painting some of the major ethical and scientific concerns of his age.
Salvator Rosa (1615-1673)
The phalanx of authors and other who would like to identify the Italian painter, engraver, poet and stage actor Salvator Rosa (1615-1673) predominantly as a painter of murky, deserted, apocalyptic landscapes, and who deploy to this end the concept of the sublime, which had been endowed with a new meaning in the 18th century, began to dissipate in the latter third of the 20th century. The attempt to revisit the intentions of this 17th century artist faces considerable obstacles, however: te colour changes, which darkened many of his paintings and resulted from his use of the alla prima technique, supported the creation of wild escalating legends about Rosa and prompted the dramatic misjudgement of his work. When this development is unravelled on the basis of an interdisciplinary discourse, we encounter a defender of stoical thinking and exponent of maxims that are surprisingly contemporary in their relevance.
Salvator Rosa
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Salvator Rosa
Salvator Rosa was not only an artist, but also a musician, a comic actor and a poet. This study examines Rosa's art, his life and his opinions set against the background of the creative activity of 17th-century Italy. All aspects of his artistic output are discussed and illustrated.
