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Painting with Demons

The Art of Gerolamo Savoldo
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Painting with Demons explores the remarkable work of Italian Renaissance painter Gerolamo Savoldo, whose radically reimagined Christian subjects stand out even in a period renowned for artistic mastery. Born in Brescia around 1480, Savoldo produced a small but profound oeuvre of about fifty paintings, including the poetic Tobias and the Angel and compelling self-portraits. This beautifully illustrated volume is the first in English dedicated to Savoldo, offering fresh insights into early modern European art and imagination.
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Ideal for readers interested in Renaissance art, art history scholars, and those fascinated by the nuanced study of underappreciated European painters.

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Michael Fried casts his acute gaze on the extraordinary Renaissance painter Gerolamo Savoldo

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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 paintingsβ€” from the intensely poetic Tobias and the Angel to sober self-portraitsβ€”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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"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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ISBN: 9781789143195

Publisher: Reaktion Books

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 18 January 2021

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Reaktion Books

Illustration: 86 illustrations, 85 in colour

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 190.0mm

Height: 250.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 200

About the Author

Art critic, art historian, literary critic-historian and poet, Michael Fried is the J. R. Herbert Boone Emeritus Professor of Humanities and the History of Art at Johns Hopkins University. His many books include Art and Objecthood: Essays and Reviews (1998) and Painting with Demons: The Art of Girolamo Savoldo (Reaktion, 2021).

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