Dosso dossi biography sample

          Dossi fu uno dei maggiori esponenti del Rinascimento a Ferrara, ed è noto per il suo stile enigmatico e allegorico....

          Presumably born around , Dosso Dossi is first documented in April , when he was paid for a painting, now lost, for the Palazzo di San Sebastiano in.

        1. Modern scholarship locates Dosso Dossi's birth around in the province of Mirandola, near Mantua.
        2. Dossi fu uno dei maggiori esponenti del Rinascimento a Ferrara, ed è noto per il suo stile enigmatico e allegorico.
        3. The landscape patterns that he developed and repeated have the feel of favorite musical phrases, and they also suggest poetry in the way they are built from a.
        4. Dosso Dossi was the leading painter in Ferrara in the first half of the sixteenth century and the last major painter of the Ferrarese School.

          5. Biography

          Italian painter (original name Giovanni di Niccolò di Lutero), part of a family of painters. Dosso Dossi and his less talented younger brother Battista Dossi were the leading painters at the court of Ferrara under Alfonso I d'Este and Ercole II d'Este.

          Their father was a native of the Trentino who became bursar at the court of Duke Ercole I of Ferrara and whose property, the Villa Dossi in the province of Mantua, gave the brothers their surname. Their activities were typical of Renaissance court artists: decorating palazzi and villas with frescoes and canvases, usually on mythological or poetic themes; providing designs for tapestries, theatre sets, festival decorations, banners, coins and tableware; painting portraits and small-scale devotional works; gilding their employer's furniture and decorating and varnishing carriages and barges.

          Most of this work, mentioned in ducal records, is now lost. They also painted altarpieces and, when permitted to do so by the Duke of