Dosso Dossi: Court Painter in Renaissance Ferrara [Paperbac

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Publisher
Metropolitan Museum of Art, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
0870998765
ISBN-13
9780870998768
eBay Product ID (ePID)
882143

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Topic
Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, History / Renaissance
Book Title
Dosso Dossi : Court Painter in Renaissance FERRARA
Publication Year
1998
Number of Pages
Xvi, 312 Pages
Language
English
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Art
Author
J. Paul Getty Museum Staff, Peter Humfrey, Mauro Lucco, Dosso Dossi
Format
Trade Paperback

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LCCN
98-025883
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
759.5 B
Synopsis
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. Dosso's painted world shares the spirit of contemporaneous epic poetry - such as Ariosto's "Orlando Furioso - "imbued as it is with mystery and transformation, energy and invention. Along with his predecessor Giorgione, Dosso was one of the first painters to improvise on the canvas. Rather than following careful preparatory drawings, he composed and recomposed as he painted - a remarkably free process that is clearly revealed in new x-ray and infrared photographs. Dosso's virtuosic painting performance was thus itself 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 and touches of humor. When Ferrara's fortunes changed, at the end of the sixteenth century, most of Dosso's paintings were taken to Rome and ultimately dispersed. 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. The book includes a full review of the scholarly literature, color reproductions of the paintings, many comparative illustrations, a chronology, and a complete bibliography. This book was originally published in 1998 and has gone out of print. This edition is a print-on-demand version of the original book.]
LC Classification Number
ND623.D65A4 1998

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