Friday, August 30, 2019

Brother Artists Dosso and Battista Dossi - Frescoes in Trento

Dosso and Battista Dossi
Ceiling Roundel with Putti
1531-32
fresco
Castello del Buonconsiglio, Trento

Dosso and Battista Dossi
Putti playing with Letters of the Name of Bishop Bernardo Clesio
1531-32
fresco
Castello del Buonconsiglio, Trento

Dosso and Battista Dossi
Putti playing with Heraldic Lions from the Arms of Bishop Bernardo Clesio
1531-32
fresco
Castello del Buonconsiglio, Trento

"In 1531-32- Dosso was engaged, again with his brother, on an extensive fresco decoration for Bishop Clesio in the Castel Buonconsiglio at Trento (where Romanino of Brescia was called to work at the same time); Dosso's paintings there show an alteration from their former style that is markedly towards the style of Giulio [Romano].  In the Buonconsiglio frescoes and in the major easel works that closely succeed them the libertarian attitudes towards form and expression that had characterized so much of Dosso's art before are chastened: drawing becomes firm and sharp and contests the assertiveness of colour; surfaces take on a harder brilliance; fantasy and free invention yield to a new desire for classicist correctness."

– S.J. Freedberg from Painting in Italy - 1500 to 1600 in the Pelican History of Art series (London, 1971)

Dosso and Battista Dossi
Ceres
1531-32
fresco
Castello del Buonconsiglio, Trento

Dosso and Battista Dossi
Ornamental Putti
1531-32
fresco
Castello del Buonconsiglio, Trento

Dosso and Battista Dossi
Neptune
1531-32
fresco
Castello del Buonconsiglio, Trento

Dosso and Battista Dossi
Athena
1531-32
fresco
Castello del Buonconsiglio, Trento

Dosso and Battista Dossi
Pluto with Cerberus
1531-32
fresco
Castello del Buonconsiglio, Trento

Dosso and Battista Dossi
Juno
1531-32
fresco
Castello del Buonconsiglio, Trento

Dosso and Battista Dossi
Mercury
1531-32
fresco
Castello del Buonconsiglio, Trento

Dosso and Battista Dossi
Ornamental Putti
1531-32
fresco
Castello del Buonconsiglio, Trento

Dosso and Battista Dossi
Ornamental Putti
1531-32
fresco
Castello del Buonconsiglio, Trento

Dosso and Battista Dossi
Ornamental Putti
1531-32
fresco
Castello del Buonconsiglio, Trento

Dosso and Battista Dossi
Ornamental Putti
1531-32
fresco
Castello del Buonconsiglio, Trento