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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.
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Dosso Dossi: court painter in Renaissance Ferrara
1998, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Distributed by H.N. Abrams
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-302) and index.
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.
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