Dosso's fate
Subtitle: painting and court culture in Renaissance Italy
By: edited by Luisa Ciammitti, Steven F. Ostrow, and Salvatore Settis.
Contributors: Ciammitti, Luisa.; Ostrow, Steven F.; Settis, Salvatore.; Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities.
Series: Issues & debates
Publisher: Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Los Angeles
Language: eng
Number of pages: 420
Subjects: Dossi, Dosso, d. 1542 -- Criticism and interpretation; Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, 1476-1534 -- Art patronage
Description: Dosso Dossi has long been considered one of Renaissance Italy's most intriguing artists. Although a wealth of documents chronicles his life, he remains, in many ways, an enigma, and his art continues to be as elusive as it is compelling. In Dosso's Fate, 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 technique. The result is an important and original contribution not only to literature on Dosso Dossi but also to the study of cultural history in early modern Italy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Based on two symposia held in May 1996 and Apr. 1997 organized by the Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities.