Dosso's Fate : Painting and Court Culture in Renaissance Italy

by Luisa Ciammitti; Steven F. Ostrow; Salvatore Settis

• ISBN13: 9780892365050
• ISBN10: 0892365056
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-03-18
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Summary

Dosso Dossi has long been considered one of Renaissance Italy's most intriguing artists. A wealth of documents chronicle his life, but because very little of his work has survived, he remains an enigma and his art continues to be as elusive as it is compelling. In this collection, leading scholars from a wide range of disciplines examine the social, intellectual, and historical contexts of his art, focusing on the development of new genres of painting, questions of style and chronology, the influence of courtly culture, and the work of his collaborators, as well as his visual and literary sources and his painting techniques.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Introduction	1	(14)
Steven F. Ostrow
Part I: Problems in Interpretation	15	(128)
Correggio in Mantua and San Benedetto Po	15	(26)
Giovanni Romano
Giorgione's Inferno with Aeneas and Anchises for Taddeo Contarini	41	(22)
Alessandro Nova
Genre Scenes by Dosso and Giorgione	63	(20)
Michel Hochmann
Dosso as a Storyteller: Reflections on His Mythological Paintings	83	(30)
Luisa Ciammitti
Painting A Calce and Sprezzatura in the 1530s: A Technical Context for Dosso	113	(30)
Vincenzo Gheroldi
Part II: Dosso's Career: Chronology, Sources, and Style	143	(147)
Dosso Dossi, Benvenuto da Garofalo, and the Costabili Polyptych in Ferrara	143	(9)
Adriano Franceschini
Dosso versus Leonbruno	152	(24)
Andrea De Marchi
Dates, Dress, and Dosso: Some Problems of Chronology	176	(25)
Jane Bridgeman
Two Moments in Dosso's Career as a Landscape Painter	201	(18)
Peter Humfrey
Dosso Dossi and the Role of Prints in North Italy	219	(22)
Andrea Bayer
On Dosso Dossi at Pesaro	241	(22)
Craig Hugh Smyth
Battista Dossi and Sebastiano Filippi	263	(27)
Mauro Lucco
Part III: Court Culture in the Age of Dosso	290	(69)
Music in Ferrara and Mantua at the Time of Dosso Dossi: Interrelations and Influences	290	(19)
William F. Prizer
Humanistic Culture and Literary Invention in Ferrara at the Time of the Dossi	309	(24)
Luca D'Ascia
Science, Cosmology, and Religion in Ferrara, 1520-1550	333	(26)
Franco Bacchelli
Part IV: Collecting Dosso	359	(39)
From Ercole I to Alfonso I: New Discoveries about the Camerini in the Castello Estense of Ferrara	359	(7)
Jadranka Bentini
The Dossi in Modena in the Seventeenth Century	366	(4)
Albano Biondi
Collecting Dosso: The Trail of Dosso's Paintings from the Late Sixteenth Century Onward	370	(28)
Burton Fredericksen
Biographical Notes on the Contributors	398	(4)
Illustration Credits	402	(5)
Index	407