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c. 1490 - 1541/42 • Italian • Painter • Renaissance
"The gentle manner of Dasso of Ferrara is esteemed in his proper works, but most of all in those which are called parerga ["accessories," or "background"]. For devoting himself with relish to the pleasant diversions of painting he used to depict jagged rocks, green groves, the firm banks of traversing rivers, the flourishing work of the countryside, the gay and hard toil of the peasants, and also the far distant prospects of land and sea, fleets, fowling, hunting, and all that genre so pleasing to the eyes in a lavish and festive style." - Paolo Giovio, 16th century
During the 15th century, a high level of skill was achieved by a group of painters established in Ferrara, where the ESTE dukes called a variety of artists from Northern Europe, as well as Italy, to their courts. In the r 6th century, Dasso dominated the Ferraran school. The historian Frederick Hartt suggests that the flatness of the local landscape prompted these artists to flights of high imagination. Such elevation is appreciatively described by Dosso's contemporary Giovio, in the quotation above. Dosso's most characteristic works are mythological subjects, of which Melissa ( 1520s) is often named as his masterpiece. An enchantress, Melissa liberates humans whom the wicked witch has turned into animals and trees. In Dosso's painting, the fantasy landscape surrounding Melissa is in transitionmen emerge from two tree trunks and are concealed in others-and a wistful dog contemplates a shiny suit of armor, awaiting his turn to be demetamorphosed into a knight. Dosso is both playful and sophisticated, and a rich colorist.
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