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Title: The painters of the school of Ferrara
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Gardner, Edmund Garratt, 1869-1935
Subjects: Painters -- Italy Ferrara Painters -- Italy Bologna Painting -- Italy Ferrara Painting -- Italy Bologna Ferrara (Italy) -- History Bologna (Italy) -- History
Publisher: London : Duckworth New York : Charles Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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s a bearded man in the flower of life. The last recorded payment to Dosso in the ducalaccounts is dated June 11, 1541.^ In spite of theassertions of Vasari and Baruffaldi that he retired on apension some years before his death, Dosso was workingup to the last, and died in the summer of 1542,leaving three daughters. Battista Dossi died in the latter part of 1548,bequeathing his goods to the Duke of Ferrara,Ercole II. It is uncertain whether he was the fatherof an indifferent artist, Evangelista Dossi, who wasmurdered by his own wife in 1586. Although farinferior to his brother, Battista is by no means anegligible quantity in the history of Ferrarese art.His landscapes are admirable, and many of his smallerpictures, like the Holy Family with an Angel, in theVilla Borghese, and the Madonna and Child withSt. George and St. Geminianus (usually attributedto Dosso) at Bergamo, have a peculiar idyllic charm. 1 Cf. Ricci, in Rassegna dArte, April, 1904.8 Venturi, op. cit,, doc. 280. • • »
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:3 l-H ft: e •A « <l - DOSSO AND BATTISTA DOSSI 167 In his larger figures, he attempted to combine acertain Raphaelesque grace with his brothers traditionalFerrarese types, not very successfully. Like Dosso, hewas an excellent painter of portraits. His portrait ofAlfonso I. at JModena, with one of the Dukes warlikeachievements against the Venetians or the papal forcesin the background, is a striking and powerful work ;it is, perhaps, the picture painted for Alfonsosmistress, Laura Dianti, after his death in 1534. In1542, for Ercole II., he painted the hereditary prince,Don Alfonso, and his little brother Luigi, the futurecardinal, then nine and two years old respectively;the former is, perhaps, the picture now belonging toLord Wimbome. Excellent portraits from his handare in the Crespi collection at Milan and at HamptonCourt.^ In the latter part of Battistas life, he wasmuch engaged in furnishing cartoons for tapestries inthe palaces of the Estensi, especially a series repre-sen

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