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DOSSI, Dosso
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Jupiter,_Mercury_and_the_Virtue_df
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1515-18
Oil_on_canvas,_111,3_x_150_cm
Kunsthistorisches_Museum,_Vienna
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Jupiter, Mercury and the Virtue df
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Oil on canvas, 111,3 x 150 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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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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