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| Dosso Dossi Sorceress Circe ca. 1507 oil on canvas Galleria Borghese, Rome |
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| Dosso Dossi Sorceress Circe and her Lovers in a Landscape ca. 1514-16 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Dosso Dossi Holy Family with St John the Baptist, a Cat and Donors 1512-13 oil on canvas Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Dosso Dossi Lamentation ca. 1517 oil on panel National Gallery, London |
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| Dosso Dossi Portrait of a Man ca. 1518-20 oil on canvas Musée du Louvre |
"Born Giovanni Luteri, the son of a fattore of the Este court, Dosso was probably a contemporary of Titian and seems to have been close in age to Correggio among the Emilians. . . . By 1514 Dosso was employed in Ferrara, the main centre of his practice for his entire life. A determining immersion in the modern Venetian style must have been contemporary at least with Giorgione's lifetime. . . . But Dosso's response was not only to Giorgione directly but also, and it seems more specifically, to the young Titian's libertarian interpretation of Giorgione. . . . It was from Titian, too, more than from Giorgione, that Dosso took courage to accentuate intensity of colour. And it is even more evident than in Titian's pictures of the first decade that Dosso's early works do not respond to the principles of order that belong to Giorgione's classicism of style. Dosso's learning in Venice had been of the visual and thematic aspects of that modern style, but not of the intellectual aspects of its aesthetic. He took its liberty but not its discipline, either of modes of representation or of structure. Despite his foundations in Giorgionismo, Dosso thus in effect by-passed classicism, and in the milieu in which he worked, at once archaizing and sophisticated, he used the liberties acquired from the Venetian mode to make an art of poetically expressive eccentricity."
– S.J. Freedberg from Painting in Italy - 1500 to 1600 in the Pelican History of Art series (London, 1971)
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| Dosso Dossi after Titian Bacchus ca. 1524 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Dosso Dossi Allegory with Jupiter, Mercury and Virtue 1524 oil on canvas Wawel Castle, Cracow, Poland |
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| Dosso Dossi Apollo 1524 oil on canvas Galleria Borghese, Rome |
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| Dosso Dossi Stoning of Stephen ca. 1525 oil on canvas Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid |
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| Dosso Dossi Virgin and Child ca. 1525 oil on canvas Galleria Borghese, Rome |
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| Dosso Dossi Virgin in Glory, with St John the Baptist and St John the Evangelist ca. 1520-30 oil on panel, transferred to canvas Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence |
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| Dosso Dossi St Sebastian ca. 1526-27 oil on panel Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan |
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| Dosso Dossi Allegory of Fortune ca. 1530 oil on canvas Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Dosso Dossi Hercules and Omphale (Allegory of Witchcraft) ca. 1535 oil on canvas Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence |
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| Dosso Dossi St John the Baptist ca. 1540 oil on panel Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan |
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| Dosso Dossi St Cosmas and St Damian ca. 1534-42 oil on canvas Galleria Borghese, Rome |