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Painting with Demons: The Art of Gerolamo Savoldo de Michael Fried

Painting with Demons: The Art of Gerolamo Savoldo

Autor Michael Fried
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 11 feb 2021
The achievements of Italian Renaissance painter Giovanni Gerolamo Savoldo were, even during a period of unprecedented artistry, out of the ordinary. Born in Brescia around 1480, he radically reimagined Christian subjects. His surviving oeuvre of roughly fifty paintings—from the intensely poetic Tobias and the Angel to sober self-portraits—represents some of the most profound work of the period. In Painting with Demons, a beautifully illustrated book and the first in English devoted to the painter, Michael Fried brings his celebrated skills of looking and thinking to bear on Savoldo’s art, providing a stunning contribution to our understanding both of the early modern European imagination and of the achievement of this underappreciated artist.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781789143195
ISBN-10: 1789143195
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: 65 color plates, 8 halftones
Dimensiuni: 184 x 248 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.85 kg
Ediția:Nouă
Editura: REAKTION BOOKS
Colecția Reaktion Books

Notă biografică

Michael Fried is the J. R. Herbert Boone Emeritus Professor of the Humanities and the History of Art at Johns Hopkins University. A renowned critic and historian, his previous books include The Moment of Caravaggio.

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"The literature on Gerolamo Savoldo, an extraordinary painter of portraits and religious scenes from Brescia, Italy, is dominated by questions of 'influence,' where the unique features of his art are explained away by reference to their sources in Venetian or Lombard or Tuscan painting. In Painting With Demons, Fried asks why Savoldo (ca. 1480-1540) 'imagined the pictorial arena in . . . highly charged, partly somaticized, intensely relational terms.' Viewers of his work feel themselves engaged not only visually but physically. For example, the hands in Savoldo’s compositions foster what Fried calls 'empathic projection.' Beholders are also assailed by Savoldo’s suggestions of a haunted cosmos—facelike structures in rocks and draperies, demonic physiognomies that seem to snarl and gape. Savoldo’s world is one where the sacred is elusive. Fried’s argument that such preoccupations arise from an early absorption of the art of Netherlandish artists like Hieronymus Bosch is utterly convincing."

"Illustrations in this book bear out the high quality of Savoldo's painting. For that reason alone, we have cause to be grateful to Fried and his publisher. . . . Fried's forthrightness and inquisitiveness are to our benefit. This stimulating book is sure to ignite debate."

"A stunning book about a stunning artist. To follow Fried through this book is to learn to see the paintings of Savoldo in a new way: to grasp the meanings of hands and their gestures, to find the strange faces that lurk in drapery and rocks, and, in the end, to see the paintings themselves as charged with both a distinctive sensibility and a unique form of Christianity."

“A groundbreaking book on an extraordinary artist. . . . An ambitious and encompassing view of Savoldo, critically astute and resolutely historical.”

"The great achievement of this book is that it discloses the secret laboratory of a painter and makes it accessible to us. Full of surprises and of unexpected insights, it can be read as an outstanding scholarly detective novel, capable of drawing the viewer into the making of paintings. The unorthodox painter Savoldo has found his unorthodox interpreter in Fried."