Dosso Dossi was an Italian Renaissance painter who was influential in turning the values of imagination, sensual delight, and sharp wit prized at the court of Ferrara into glorious artistic reality through his paintings. Dosso and his brother Battista were the leading painters at the court of Ferrara under Alfonso I d'Este and Ercole II d'Este, where Dosso's virtuosic and imaginative paintings, including portraits, religious works, and mythological subjects, were greatly admired until most were dispersed when Ferrara's fortunes changed in the late 16th century.
Dosso Dossi,Court Painter in Renaissance Ferrara.Portrait and religious painting
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these qualities were enormously prized in sixteenth-century Ferrara, where one of the most cultured
and powerful courts of the High Renaissance held sway.
Dosso Dossi was the idiosyncratic, brilliant painter most responsible for turning those values into
a glorious artistic reality.
8. DOSSI, Dosso, DOSSI Battista
Portrait Lucrezia Borgia, Duchess
of Ferrara
Portrait de Lucrèce Borgia,
duchesse de Ferrare
1518
National Gallery of Victoria,
Melbourne
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Portrait of a Man, former title
Cesare Borgia
Portrait d'homme, dit autrefois
Portrait de Cesare Borgia
1518-1520
Musée du Louvre, Paris
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Portrait of a Gentleman
Portrait d'un gentilhomme
1520
Philadelphia Museum of Art,
Philadelphia
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Portrait of a Man Wearing a Black
Beret
Portrait d'un homme portant un
béret noir
1530
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm
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Dosso Dossi: Court Painter in Renaissance Ferrara
Portrait and religious painting
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53. Dosso Dossi, real name Giovanni di Niccolò de Luteri, was an Italian Renaissance painter who belonged
to the School of Ferrara, painting in a style mainly influenced by Venetian painting, in particular
Giorgione and early Titian.
Dosso and his less talented younger brother Battista were the leading painters at the court of Ferrara
under Alfonso I d'Este and Ercole II d'Este.
Dosso's virtuosic painting performance was a kind of magical invention.
The play of his imagination is evident not only in the many pictures representing mythological or literary
subjects but also in his religious paintings, which are lyrical and original, filled with spectacular visual
effects.
When Ferrara's fortunes changed, at the end of the sixteenth century, most of Dosso's paintings were
taken to Rome and ultimately dispersed.