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DOSSI, Dosso

DOSSI, Dosso Aeneas and Achates on the Libyan Coast df oil painting on canvas
Aeneas and Achates on the Libyan Coast df
Painting ID::  6446
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DOSSI, Dosso Aeneas and Achates on the Libyan Coast df oil painting on canvas



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  DOSSI, Dosso
  Italian High Renaissance Painter, ca.1490-1542 Although responsive to a wide range of outside influences, the most important of which were probably those of Giorgione in Venice and Raphael in Rome, he was an artist of great originality with a strong feeling for effects of light and colour. Landscape plays a prominent and highly expressive role in his work. He was employed, as were also the poets Matteomaria Boiardo (?1441-94) and Ludovico Ariosto, at the court of Ferrara, which was internationally renowned for its culture, especially its musical life and collections of art: one of his best-known works is an illustration of a magical scene from Ariosto's poetry,
  Aeneas and Achates on the Libyan Coast df
  c. 1520 Oil on canvas, 58,7 x 87,6 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington

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