Cosimo Tura (born c. 1430 in Ferrara, died 1495), also known as Il Cosmè or Cosmè Tura, was an Italian early-Renaissance (or Quattrocento) painter and the founder of the School of Ferrara. A student of Francesco Squarcione of Padua, he obtained patronage from both Dukes Borso and Ercole d'Este I. His pupils include Francesco del Cossa and Francesco Bianchi. He would have been influenced by Mantegna's and Piero de la Francesca's styles. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (650x1099, 156 KB)Source: [1] The two-dimensional work of art depicted in this image is in the public domain in the United States and in those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (650x1099, 156 KB)Source: [1] The two-dimensional work of art depicted in this image is in the public domain in the United States and in those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years. ... Events The first Portuguese navigators reach the coast of modern Sierra Leone. ... // Events May 23 - Joan of Arc is captured by the Burgundians while leading an army to relieve Compiègne The Ottoman Empire captures Thessalonica from the Venetians First use of optical methods in the creation of Art A map of Europe in 1430. ... Ferrara, a town, an archiepiscopal see and a province in Emilia-Romagna, Italy. ... Events February 22 - King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the citys throne. ... By region Italian Renaissance Spanish Renaissance Northern Renaissance French Renaissance German Renaissance English Renaissance The Renaissance, also known as Il Rinascimento (in Italian), was an influential cultural movement which brought about a period of scientific revolution and artistic transformation, at the dawn of modern European history. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... List of painters of the School of Ferrara include: *15th Century Cosimo Tura Francesco Cossa Ercole dei Roberti *16th century Lorenzo Costa Dosso Dossi Girolamo da Carpi Benvenuto Tisio (il Garofalo) Category: Italian painters ... Virgin and Child (c. ... Probably most important Duke of Ferrara from the house of Este. ... Triumph of Venus (detail), 1469-1470. ... The Lamentation over the Dead Christ (c. ...
In Ferrara, he is well represented by frescoes in the Schifanoia Palace (1469–71) and organ doors showing the “Annunciation” (1469) in the Duomo of Ferrara. He was one of the first renaissance painters in Italy to paint in oil.
Partial Anthology of Works
Saint George, (San Diego Museum of Art)image
Pieta (ca. 1460, Museo Correr, Venice)image
The Martyrdom of Saint Maurelius, (1470s, Pinacoteca Nazionale, Ferrara)image
The Circumcision of Christ (1470s, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston)image
Madonna and Child ( 1455, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.)image
Portrait of Eleonora d'Aragona, Duchess of Ferrara)(the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York)[1]
Spring, (1460, National Gallery, London). image
The Princess, (1470, del Duomo, Ferrara). image
St. George and the Dragon, (c. 1470.Museo del Duomo, Ferrara) image
Madonna Enthroned, (1474, National Gallery, London) image
St. Sebastian. (Gemaldegallerei, Dresden, Germany) image
St. Dominic, (Uffizi)image
Pietà, (Louvre) image
St. Anthony of Padua Reading, (Louvre) image
Pietà (c. 1472, Correr Municipal Museum, Venice)
Lamentation (c. 1472, Roverella altarpiece)
Letter A miniature from choirbook (Metropolitan Museum, New York) [2]
References
History of Painting: The Renaissance in Venice Part Two by Haldane Macfall, page 34
Tura’s Calliope, with her corporeally expressive twist, her opened dress, her plucked brows, and her eyes coolly averted from the observer, seems to revel in precisely the sensual appeals that made pagan culture and its literary legacy so disturbing to opponents of humanism.
Tura then emerged as one of the earliest Italian artists to use an oil-based technique as Netherlandish masters such as Rogier Van der Weyden had used it: to create rich and lustrous effects by laying down transparent layers of pigment over a white background.
The currency of Tura’s “Ferrarese” language was short lived and probably obsolete by 1490, five years before his death, when he would write to the Duke of Ferrara, claiming poverty, illness, and an inability to work or collect his debts from renegade clients.
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