SALVATOR ROSA

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 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-matter witchcraft and divination, as well as prophecies, natural magic and dark violence and his early exploration of a nascent ae...[Read more]