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Salvator Rosa: Paint and Performance (Renaissance Lives)
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 matterwitchcraft and divination, as well as prophecies, natural magic, and dark violenceand his early exploration of a nascent aesthetic of the sublime. Read more