Make Something Happen!
Julian Bell: Paint Serious, Paint Big, 2 December 2010
Salvator Rosa: Bandits, Wilderness and Magic
by Helen Langdon, Xavier Salomon and Caterina Volpi.
Paul Holberton, 240 pp., £40, September 2010,978 1 907372 01 8 Show More
by Helen Langdon, Xavier Salomon and Caterina Volpi.
Paul Holberton, 240 pp., £40, September 2010,
Painting for Profit: The Economic Lives of 17th-Century Italian Painters
by Richard Spear and Philip Sohm et al.
Yale, 384 pp., £45,0 300 15456 9 Show More
by Richard Spear and Philip Sohm et al.
Yale, 384 pp., £45,
Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane
by Andrew Graham-Dixon.
Allen Lane, 514 pp., £30, July 2010,978 0 7139 9674 6 Show More
by Andrew Graham-Dixon.
Allen Lane, 514 pp., £30, July 2010,
“... The upright canvas, some 4’6’’ by 3’, stood on Salvator Rosa’s easel, prepared with a burnt umber ground. The painter first attacked it, as far as I can see, with a black-loaded brush, dragging a jagged stuttery line almost from top to bottom. That was to be the rock edge of Etna’s crater. Where the volcanic glow was to fall, Rosa slapped on a queasy mid-tone mix of sienna and smalt blue; capped it with brisk blurts of white; later, knocked the resulting rock planes back into readable order with red and yellow glazes ... ”
