Dosso Dossi : Court Painter in Renaissance Ferrara

"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 Dosso´s 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 artist´s career and the visual poetry of his works, and present documentary information as well as technical analyses of his innovative working methods."