Research Catalog

Title

Dosso Dossi : court painter in Renaissance Ferrara / Peter Humfrey and Mauro Lucco ; with contributions by Andrea Rothe [and others] ; edited by Andrea Bayer.

Author

Humfrey, Peter, 1947-

Publication

New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art : Distributed by H.N. Abrams, [1998], ©1998.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Dossi, Dosso, -1542.
• Lucco, Mauro.
• Bayer, Andrea.
• Pinacoteca nazionale di Ferrara.
• Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
• J. Paul Getty Museum.

Description

xvi, 312 pages : illustrations (some color); 31 cm

Summary

• Imagination, sensual delight, a sharp wit - 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.
• Dosso's rich color schemes are akin to those of his fellow North Italian Titian; he learned something about innovative composition from Raphael and about the force of the body from Michelangelo. But his paintings have a very individual appeal. In leafy natural surroundings containing an array of animals and heavenly bodies, events unfold that are often enigmatic, enacted by characters whose interrelationships elude definition.
• For this exhibition, almost all the surviving paintings have been brought together; in the catalogue entries each one receives a fresh and comprehensive scholarly discussion. The catalogue also contains essays that describe Dosso's artistic career and the highly charged world of the court at Ferrara and that probe the visual poetry and subtle wit of his work.
• The illuminating results of an extensive campaign of technical examination, undertaken in connection with the exhibition, are discussed and illustrated in additional essays and in observations that accompany the catalogue entries throughout.

Subjects

• Dossi, Dosso, -1542 > Exhibitions
• Painting, Renaissance > Italy > Ferrara > Exhibitions
• Alfonso > I d'Este, > Duke of Ferrara, > 1476-1534 > Art patronage > Exhibitions

Note

• Catalog of an exhibition held at the Pinacoteca nazionale, Ferrara, Sept. 26-Dec. 14, 1998, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Jan. 14-Mar. 28, 1999, and the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Apr. 27-July 11, 1999.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-302) and index.

Contents

Dosso Dossi: His Life and Works / Peter Humfrey -- Fantasy, Wit, Delight: The Art of Dosso Dossi / Mauro Lucco -- Dosso's Public: The Este Court at Ferrara / Andrea Bayer -- The Technique of Dosso Dossi. Poetry with Paint / Andrea Rothe and Dawson W. Carr. Dosso's Works in the Galleria Estense, Modena, and the Pinacoteca Nazionale, Ferrara / Jadranka Bentini. Dosso's Works in the Galleria Borghese: New Documentary, Iconographical, and Technical Information / Anna Coliva -- Catalogue / Peter Humfrey and Mauro Lucco -- Technical Observations / Andrea Rothe -- Paintings / Battista Dossi -- Chronology: Documented Dates in the Life of Dosso Dossi -- App. Technical Observations on Uncatalogued Works / Andrea Rothe.

ISBN

• 0870998757 (hardcover)
• 0870998765 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0810965305 (Abrams)

LCCN

98025883

OCLC

• 39223657
• ocm39223657

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries