CLASS: BONE DEEP GOTHIC Curious what this is all about? Find out here! One very reasonable question at this point is “why Salvator Rosa?” After all, we have taken a look at Rosa in light of when and where he lived, and we have seen that, in that context, his work was not viewed, by …
CLASS: BONE DEEP GOTHIC Curious what this is all about? Find out here! By the 1660s, Rosa had achieved fame, respect, and plentiful commissions. However, he had not received them on his own terms. Feeling that he would be forever associated with small landscapes and denied the prestige that was his due, he resumed travel …
CLASS: BONE DEEP GOTHIC Curious what this is all about? Find out here! If Rosa’s years in Florance were to be some of the happiest and most productive in his life, his ambition was not content to make a permanent home there. In 1649, he relocated Lucretia and the rest of his family to Rome, …
CLASS: BONE DEEP GOTHIC Curious what this is all about? Find out here! Although Rosa was not quite obscure when he arrived in Florence, he was hardly famous either. He settled there at the invitation of Carlo de’Medici. In the mid-17th century, the Medici Court was still a formidable political dynasty. In the spirit of …
CLASS: BONE DEEP GOTHIC Curious what this is all about? Find out here! In one sense, our exploration of the gothic will begin with an early subject: the career of painter Salvator Rosa, who was active during the middle part of the 1600s in the cities of Naples, Florence, and Rome. Rosa was a …
Understanding the Gothic, 410 – 2016 Part I: Bone Deep Gothic Gothic Funk Press is happy to offer an informal course that will explore the rise of the Gothic outlook and aesthetic from its complex distant roots, guided by Gothic: 400 Years of Horror, Excess, Evil and Ruin, Richard Davenport-Hines’ impassioned and eccentric exploration of …