Works by Dosso Dossi
14 works · 85 msDosso Dossi served the Este dukes of Ferrara from 1514, and he often gave his myths and allegories a dreamlike air, jarring colour and proportions that can look like caricature.
His meanings can be hard to pin down. In Jupiter, Mercury and Virtue a bearded Jupiter paints butterflies on a canvas while Mercury raises a finger to his lips, and no one has settled what the Getty's Mythological Scene is about. The Allegory of Fortune, found at a flea market, seats a nude Fortune with a cornucopia on a bubble, next to Chance about to drop lottery tickets into a golden urn.
His younger brother Battista Dossi, trained in Raphael's workshop in Rome, was frequently his partner. His Saint George, patron saint of Ferrara, holds the dragon's bloodied head while a rainbow breaks through the dark sky. A panel at the National Gallery of Victoria, once taken for an unknown youth by an unknown hand, has been identified by that museum as his portrait of Lucrezia Borgia.
Sources: Wikipedia, Wawel Castle, National Gallery of Victoria, J. Paul Getty Museum.
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