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DOSSI, Dosso
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The_Virgin_Appearing_to_Sts_John_the_Baptist_and_John_the_Evangelist_dfg
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1520s
Oil_on_wood_transferred_to_canvas,_153_x_114_cm
Galleria_degli_Uffizi,_Florence
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The Virgin Appearing to Sts John the Baptist and John the Evangelist dfg
DOSSI, Dosso2.jpg
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Oil on wood transferred to canvas, 153 x 114 cm
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence |
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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,
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