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Painting with Demons: The Art of Gerolamo Savoldo
Hardback
Main Details
Title |
Painting with Demons: The Art of Gerolamo Savoldo
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Michael Fried
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Physical Properties |
Format:Hardback | Pages:256 | Dimensions(mm): Height 250,Width 190 |
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Category/Genre | Art History Renaissance art Individual artists and art monographs |
ISBN/Barcode |
9781789143195
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Audience | Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly | |
Illustrations |
73 illustrations, 65 in colour
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Reaktion Books
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Imprint |
Reaktion Books
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Publication Date |
18 January 2021 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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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
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