Dosso Dossi: Court Painter in Renaissance Ferrara

Dosso Dossi: Court Painter in Renaissance Ferrara by Humfrey, Peter. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780870998768.

The court of Ferrara was a leading centre of Renaissance art in the 16th century, and Dosso Dossi was its greatest and most idiosyncratic painter. Published to accompany a 1999 US exhibition of Dossos work, this book examines nearly all his surviving paintings - mythological, literary and religious. While Dosso learned much from his contemporaries Titian, Raphael and Michelangelo, he developed a unique style marked by imagination, sensual delight and sharp wit. Each painting is reproduced and discussed in detail, and essays probe the artists career and the visual poetry of his works, and present documentary information as well as technical analyses of his innovative working methods.