Book Description

One of the great landscape and history painters of the seventeenth century, Salvator Rosa was also a talented musician, a notable comic actor, a prolific correspondent, and a successful satirist and poet. This elegantly written biography tells the story of Rosa`s creative life, art, and times; his wayward temperament; his furious insistence on the independence of the artist; and his influence on the art and literature of later centuries. ... Read more

Book Description

Salvator Rosa (1615–1673) was a colorful and controversial Italian painter, talented musician, a notable comic actor, a prolific correspondent, and a successful satirist and poet.His paintings, especially his rugged landscapes and their evocation of the sublime, appealed to Romantic writers, and his work was highly influential on several generations of European writers.

James S. Patty analyzes Rosa’s tremendous influence on French writers, chiefly those of the nineteenth century, such as Stendhal, Honoré de Balzac, Victor Hugo, George Sand, and Théophile Gautier. Arranged in chronological order, with numerous quotations from French fiction, poetry, drama, art criticism, art history, literary history, and reference works, Salvator Rosa in French Literature forms a narrative account of the reception of Rosa’s life and work in the world of French letters. ... Read more