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Dosso Dossi
(c.1490-1542)
Dossi, Dosso (Giovanni Luteri) (c.1490?-1542). The outstanding painter
of the Ferrarese School in the 16th century.
His early life and training are obscure, but Vasari's assertion that
he was born around 1474 is now thought unlikely. He is first recorded in
1512 at Mantua (the name Dosso probably comes from a place near Mantua he
is not called Dosso Dossi until the 18th century). By 1514 he was in
Ferrara, where he spent most of the rest of his career, combining with
the poet Ariosto in devising court entertainments, triumphs, tapestries,
etc. Dosso painted various kinds of pictures mythological and religious
works, portraits, and decorative frescos and is perhaps most important
for the part played in his work by landscape, in which he continues the
romantic pastoral vein of Giorgione and Titian.
The influence from these two artists is indeed so strong that it is thought
he must have been in Venice early in his career. Dosso's work, however,
has a personal quality of fantasy and an opulent sense of color and texture
that gives it an individual stamp (Melissa, Borghese Galleria, Rome,
c.1523). His brother Battista Dossi (c.1497-1548) often collaborated
with him, but there is insufficient evidence to know whether he made an
individual contribution.
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