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DOSSI, Dosso
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Circe (or Melissa) dfgd
Painting ID:: 6449
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DOSSI, Dosso
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Italian High Renaissance Painter, ca.1490-1542
Although responsive to a wide range of outside influences, the most important of which were probably those of Giorgione in Venice and Raphael in Rome, he was an artist of great originality with a strong feeling for effects of light and colour. Landscape plays a prominent and highly expressive role in his work. He was employed, as were also the poets Matteomaria Boiardo (?1441-94) and Ludovico Ariosto, at the court of Ferrara, which was internationally renowned for its culture, especially its musical life and collections of art: one of his best-known works is an illustration of a magical scene from Ariosto's poetry, |
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Circe (or Melissa) dfgd |
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c. 1520
Oil on canvas
Galleria Borghese, Rome |
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Related Paintings::.
| San Zaccaria Altarpiece | Peasant Woman Sewing in Front of a Window (nn04) | A lust for home | |
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