Painting with Demons: The Art of Gerolamo Savoldo

Hardback

Main Details

Title Painting with Demons: The Art of Gerolamo Savoldo
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Michael Fried
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:256
Dimensions(mm): Height 250,Width 190
Category/GenreArt History
Renaissance art
Individual artists and art monographs
ISBN/Barcode 9781789143195
Audience
Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Illustrations 73 illustrations, 65 in colour

Publishing Details

Publisher Reaktion Books
Imprint Reaktion Books
Publication Date 18 January 2021
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Michael Fried casts his acute gaze on the extraordinary Renaissance painter Gerolamo Savoldo 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 under appreciated artist.

Author Biography

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.

Reviews

"A groundbreaking book on an extraordinary artist. . . . An ambitious and encompassing view of Savoldo, critically astute and resolutely historical."--Stephen J. Campbell, Johns Hopkins University