{"product_id":"salvator-rosa-paint-and-performance-hardcover","title":"Salvator Rosa: Paint and Performance - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHelen Langdon\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA compelling biography of the Renaissance painter, known equally for his magnetic personality and unusual subject matter: witchcraft and the sublime. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eSalvator Rosa\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHelen Langdon\u003c\/b\u003e is an art historian with a special interest in the Italian Baroque. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eClaude Lorrain\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCaravaggio: A Life\u003c\/i\u003e and is based in London.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.6 x 5.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 06, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51766730981664,"sku":"9781789145731","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/bb022d197937ca2ec9b58fe4b632e111.webp?v=1780297770","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/salvator-rosa-paint-and-performance-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}