In Dosso Dossi: Paintings of Myth, Magic, and the Antique,
Giancarlo Fiorenza draws on a wealth of rarely studied primary
source material to present the work of the Ferrarese court artist
Dosso Dossi in a new light. The artist, who worked mainly for Duke
Alfonso I d'Este of Ferrara, is celebrated for his mythological
paintings that spoke to the courtly imagination. Fiorenza focuses
on Dosso's highly allusive and eloquent portrayal of ancient and
vernacular subjects found in such well-known works as Jupiter
Painting Butterflies, Myth of Pan, Enchantress, and his frescoes of
Aesop's fables.
Dosso's art challenges conventional iconographic analysis, and
Fiorenza considers how the poetics governing his imagery recasts
literary sources, including Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, by
magnifying their most pictorial components. Perhaps more
compellingly than any of his contemporaries, Dosso's paintings
transformed courtly ideals and princely identity into a new sensual
spirit.
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