Circe and her Lovers in a Landscape, 1514 - 1516.

Dosso Dossi (c.1490 - 1542) ^[1], real name Giovanni di Niccolò de Luteri, was an Italian High Renaissance painter of the Ferrara School of Painting. His early training and life is not well-documented; hi father was a bursar (spenditore) for the Dukes. He may have had training locally with Lorenzo Costa or in Mantua, where he is known to be in 1512. By 1514, he would begin working for three decades for dukes Alphonso I and Ercole II d'Este, becoming principal court artist. Dosso worked with his brother Battista Dossi frequently. He frequently served the dukes in the ephemeral decorations of furniture and theater sets. He is well known for cryptic allegorical conceits in paintings. Info: Created 1514 - 1516; Oil on canvas; National Gallery of Art, Washington Credit: painted by Dosso Dossi Source: from the Art Renewal Center 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... Info: Created 1514 - 1516; Oil on canvas; National Gallery of Art, Washington Credit: painted by Dosso Dossi Source: from the Art Renewal Center 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... Events Tirant Lo Blanc by Joanot Martorell, Martí Joan De Galba is published. ... Events War resumes between Francis I of France and Emperor Charles V. This time Henry VIII of England is allied to the Emperor, while James V of Scotland and Sultan Suleiman I are allied to the French. ... By region Italian Renaissance Spanish Renaissance Northern Renaissance French Renaissance German Renaissance English Renaissance The Italian Renaissance began the opening phase of the Renaissance, a period of great cultural change and achievement from the end of the 14th century to about 1600. ... 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 ... Portrait of Alfonso dEste by an unknown artist Alfonso dEste (1486–1534) was Duke of Ferrara during the War of the League of Cambrai. ...

The painting of Aeneas in the Elysian Fields was part of the Camerino d'Alabstro of Alfonso I in the Este Castle, decorated with canvases o bacchanalia and erotic subjects including Feast of the Gods by Giovanni Bellini and a painting by Titian. The frieze paintings were based on the Aeneid, this scene is book 6, lines 635-709, wherein Aeneas is guided over the bridge into the Elysian Fields by Cumaean Sibyl. Orpheus with the Lyre flits in the forest, In the background are the the ghostly horses of dead warriers and diverse entertained bodies.

In Hercules and the Pygmies, Hercules has fallen aseep after defeating Antaeus, and is set upon by an army of pygmies, whom he defeats. He gathers them in his lion skin. Paintings regrading Hercules were commonly made for the Duke Ercole II. The subjects of the Myth of Pan or Tubalcain are unknown.

Anthology of Works

• Holy Family with Donors (1514, Philadelphia Museum of Art)
• Allegory of Fortune, c.1530; oil on canvas, 178 x 216.5 cm, J. Paul Getty Museum [2]
• Three Ages of Man or Rustic Idyll; 77.5 x 11.8 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Aeneas in the Elysian Fields , 1518-1521) National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
• Aeneas, Barber Institute, Birmingham
• Hercules and the Pygmies Alte Galerie am Landesmuseum Johanneum Graz
• A Myth of Pan, (Getty Museum, Los Angeles)
• Tubalcain (Allegory of Music) Museo Horne Florence
• Witchraft Stregoneria (Choice of Hercules between Vice and Virtue) Galleria degli Uffizzi
• Saint Michael (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden)
• Saint George and the Dragon (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden)
• The Virgin Appearing to Sts John the Baptist and John the Evangelist,(1520s,Uffizi, Florence)[3]
• Jupiter, Mercury and the Virtue, (1524, Wawel Castle, Kraków)

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References

1. ^  The 2003 Columbia Encyclopedia cites birthdate as c.1479. The Getty Museum (which owns some of Dossi's works), Britannica, Encarta, and the monograph below cite birthdate as c.1490. His place of birth is unknown.

Francis P. Smyth and John P. O'Neill (Editors in Chief (1986). National Gallery of Art, Washington DC The Age of Correggio and the Carracci: Emilian Painting of the 16th and 17th Centuries, 111-128.

Literature

Witchcraft (Allegory of Hercules), c.1535

• Dosso's Fate - Painting and Court Culture in Renaissance Italy, Getty Research Institute
• Dosso and Battista Dossi, by F. Gibbons (1968).

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External links

• Short biography and pictures at the J. Paul Getty Museum
• Images of some paintings