Dosso Dossi

(1480–1542) Italian painter; (c.1490-1542)

Dosso Dossi (1480–1542) is listed in the catalogue as a painter. By year of birth, Dosso Dossi belongs to the chapter ‘The Renaissance’ in this site’s history of art.

Dosso Dossi was born in Mirandola and died in Ferrara. Dosso Dossi worked in Ferrara, Trento, and Milan. Wikidata associates Dosso Dossi with Italian Renaissance and School of Ferrara.

The best-known works include ‘Jupiter, Mercury and Virtue’, ‘An Allegory of Fortune’, ‘Allegory of Music’, and ‘A Man embracing a Woman’. The works belong mainly to the genres history painting and landscape painting. The catalogue has 86 works by Dosso Dossi with free images. The dated works span the years 1486–1550. Works by Dosso Dossi are held by several collections, among them Galleria Borghese, Uffizierna, National Gallery, and Galleria Estense. Wikidata links 4 works to movements covered in the chapter ‘The Renaissance’.

Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Jerg Ratgeb, Jan de Cock, Ludovico Mazzolino, Jacob van Utrecht, and Damián Forment.

• The Renaissance
• Allegory of Music
• Witchcraft (Allegory of Hercules)
• Jupiter, Mercury and Virtue
• Circe and Her Lovers in a Landscape
• Ercole e i pigmei
• Virgin of the Assumption and St. Michael the Archangel