The court of Ferrara was a leading center of Renaissance art in the 16th century, and Dosso Dossi was its greatest and most idiosyncratic painter. This book, which accompanies the first major exhibition of Dosso's work, includes nearly all his surviving paintings -- mythological, literary, and religious.While Dosso learned much from his contemporaries Titian, Raphael, and Michelangelo, he developed a unique style marked by imagination, sensual delight, and sharp wit. Here, each painting is reproduced and discussed in detail, and essays by eminent scholars explore Dosso's career, probe the visual poetry of his works, and present important new documentary information as well as technical analyses of his innovative working methods.

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This exhibition catalog should generate interest in a northern Italian painter whose name is not as recognizable as that of some of his early 16th-century contemporaries. Dosso Dossi's art shows awareness of current trends in the work of Giorgione, Titian, Raphael, Michelangelo, Giovanni Bellini, Mantegna, Giulio Romano, Patinir, and D?rer. The blending of these influences in Dosso's religious and secular paintings is discussed in essays by Humfrey (art history, Univ. of St. Andrews), Lucco (art history, Univ. of Bologna), and five curators and conservators. The contributors also explore the characteristics of Dosso's poetic and often witty individual style, how it flourished in the humanist environment of the D'Este court, and the extent of his collaboration with his brother Battista and others. Technical analyses give insights into Dosso's improvisational painting techniques. The Met has collaborated with the Getty Museum, Italian organizations, and private collectors to organize a traveling exhibition of 58 works and this beautifully illustrated scholarly catalog. Recommended for academic and art libraries with Renaissance collections.AAnne Marie Lane, Univ. of Wyoming, Laramie
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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