Name: Painting with Demons: The Art of Gerolamo Savoldo
Author: Fried, Michael
ISBN: 9781789143195

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Painting with Demons: The Art of Gerolamo Savoldo

by Michael Fried

Reaktion Books, 2021
Cloth: 978-1-78914-319-5 | eISBN: 978-1-78914-320-1

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
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.

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

"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."

— Anthony Grafton, Princeton University

"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."

— Victor I. Stoichita, University of Fribourg

"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."

— Jackdaw

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Cover

Title Page

Contents

Introduction

Part One

1. Death of St Peter Martyr

2. Hands

3. Faces

4. Magic

5. The Brescia Adoration of the Shepherds

Part Two

Breathing the Same Air

Savoldo and the Self-portrait

Faces, Masks, Northern Art

‘Magic’, ‘Influence’, Demons

Who, then, was Savoldo?

Savoldo and Caravaggio: the Inescapable Relation

Afterword

References

Acknowledgements

Photo Acknowledgements

Index

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