Dosso Dossi

Dosso Dossi ( Giovanni di Niccolo actually de ' Luteri; * to 1480-90 in Ferrara, † 1542 in Ferrara) was an Italian painter. He is regarded as the most important representative of the Ferrarese art of the late Renaissance.

Life and meaning

About Dossos youth and his education nothing more is known. The influence of Titian and Giorgione is so strong that it seems likely that the beginning of his career in Venice. He is registered for the first time in Mantua in 1512. From 1514 he worked in Ferrara as court painter to Duke Alfonso I d' Este. Here he worked - often with his brother Battista together - as a painter, but also as a decorator of court festivals and theater performances as well as an interior decorator. The Dukes of Ferrara were very loving and art brought significant painters, musicians and writers to their court ( including Ariosto, with the Dosso worked ). Dosso eventually became the leader of the school of Ferrara, one of the most important artists of his time. Around 1520 he could have stayed in Rome. In his last decade of life, his brother played an increasingly important role in the joint workshop, which he took over after Dossos death. When the Vatican took over the Duchy of Ferrara in 1598, his works were scattered; after a short time he was forgotten.

His religious and mythological images are characterized by their glowing colors, as it is known by Titian. From the beginning landscape played an important role in magical light. Here the influence of Giorgione was particularly evident. However Dossos autonomy is reflected in its distinct fantasy that comes to fruition in a series of allegorical. Many of his paintings are considered due to their complex and dark subject matter as hardly explicable and enigmatic. In his later works, an unearthly light plays around melancholy figures in dreamy landscapes. Overall, his work is always very personal, almost eccentric, and imaginative.

Works

National Gallery, London

  • A Bacchante, 1525
  • Lamentation over the Dead Christ, around 1517
  • The Adoration of the Magi, probably 1530-42
  • A saint, after 1600 * A man embraces a woman, about 1524

Galleria Borghese, Rome

  • Circe (or Melissa ), 1520, oil on canvas
  • The hl. Cosmas and Damian, 1534-42, oil on canvas
  • Diana and Calisto, 1528, oil on canvas
  • Madonna and Child, 1525, oil on canvas
  • Apollo and Daphne, about 1525, oil on canvas
  • Gyges and King Candaulus, 1508 /19, oil on canvas
  • Adoration of the Child, 1519, oil on canvas

Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

  • The Virgin with St. John the Baptist and John the Evangelist, 1520, oil on wood, transferred to canvas
  • Portrait of a warrior, 1530s, oil on canvas
  • Witchcraft ( Allegory of Hercules ), 1535, oil on canvas

Other museums

  • Sybille, 1516-20, oil on canvas, Hermitage Museum St. Petersburg
  • Aeneas and Achates on the Libyan coast, about 1520, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Art Washington
  • St. John and Bartholomew with Donors, 1527, oil on panel, Galleria Nazionale d' Arte Antica, Rome
  • Jupiter, Mercury and Virtue, 1524, oil on canvas, Wawel, Krakow
  • Frescoes in several rooms of the Buonconsiglio in Trento
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