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| Dosso Dossi Nymph pursued by a Satyr ca. 1516 oil on canvas Palazzo Pitti, Florence |
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| Dosso Dossi Man embracing a Woman ca. 1524 oil on panel National Gallery, London |
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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 Apollo and Daphne ca. 1522 oil on canvas Galleria Borghese, Rome |
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| Dosso Dossi Portrait of a Court Buffoon 1508-10 oil on canvas Palazzo dei Musei, Modena |
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| Dosso and Battista Dossi Virgin of the Assumption with St Michael Archangel vanquishing Lucifer ca. 1533-34 oil on panel Galleria Nazionale di Parma |
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| Dosso Dossi Virgin and Child enthroned with St Sebastian and St George ca. 1517-18 oil on canvas Palazzo dei Musei, Modena |
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| Dosso Dossi The Lamentation ca. 1517 oil on panel National Gallery, London |
"Giovanni Luteri (ca. 1489-1542), called Dosso Dossi, is first recorded working for Federico Gonzaga at Mantua in 1512, but from 1514 was in the service of the Este at Ferrara, for whom he executed religious paintings, portraits, but above all allegorical and mythological subjects and others derived from contemporary poets, especially Ariosto. Landscape settings play an important part in virtually all his works, painted with great freedom both of the brush and of colour, in rich and unexpected textures and tonalities, which produce a poetic, even romantic, effect. He was assisted by his younger brother, Battista."
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| Prospero Fontana The Deposition 1563 oil on panel Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
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| Prospero Fontana The Entombment (detail) ca. 1548-49 oil on panel Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna |
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| Prospero Fontana Adoration of the Magi ca. 1569 oil on panel Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna |
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| Prospero Fontana Adoration of the Magi (detail) ca. 1569 oil on panel Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna |
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| Prospero Fontana Adoration of the Shepherds ca. 1550 oil on panel Palazzo dei Musei, Modena |
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| Prospero Fontana Holy Family with St John the Baptist and St Catherine ca. 1575 oil on panel Museo di Castelvecchio, Verona |
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| Prospero Fontana Portrait of a Cardinal ca. 1540 oil on canvas Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena |
"Prospero Fontana (ca. 1512-1597) was an Italian Mannerist painter from Bologna. He went as a young man to Genoa, where he was employed as an assistant to Perino del Vaga in the decoration of Palazzo Doria; in 1551 he was active in Rome with Taddeo Zuccaro, and in about 1560 also spent a brief period at Fontainebleau assisting Primaticcio. He worked longest, however, as a member of Vasari's team in Florence and Rome, and it is Vasari who is the greatest influence on his own paintings. Only in his fifties did Fontana depart from his dependence on Vasari's maniera, when perhaps under the impact of Venetian and Lombard art he turned to a greater naturalism and expressivity."
– extracts from the Yale Dictionary of Art and Artists (2000) by Erika Langmuir and Norbert Lynton