Dosso Dossi
1490 – 1542
Italian painter (original name Giovanni di Niccolò di Lutero), part of a family of painters. Dosso Dossi and his less talented younger brother Battista Dossi were the leading painters at the court of Ferrara under Alfonso I d'Este and Ercole II d'Este. Their father was a native of the Trentino who became bursar at the court of Duke Ercole I of Ferrara and whose property, the Villa Dossi in the province of Mantua, gave the brothers their surname.
25 artworks in collection
Locations
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Works
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Museum
Madonna and Child with Sts John the Baptist and Jerome
Private collection1517
The Virgin Appearing to Sts John the Baptist and John the Evangelist
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence1520
Jupiter and Semele
Private collection1520
Bacchus
Private collection1524
