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Ferrara

#9

Ferrara #9

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Italian Court Artists (In Ferrara)

Courts compete, fear to be “displease by imitation” by others - Beatrice d’Este, Duchess of Milan

Saint Nicholas of Tolentino Reviving the Birds, Garofalo (Benvenuto Tisi da Garofalo)

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Saint Nicholas of Tolentino Reviving a Child

ca. 1530

Velouté

/ birds depict after revived, child depict before. Is this something we treat different moments as significance between animals and humans?

/ baby in a very expressive angle, blood on his leg

/ landscape with a dam

/ Augustinian sit on his bed - intimate? 

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/ Three types of glasses displayed

L’Ortolano, Adoration

Focus adoration, no annunciation to shepherd scene that’s usually included

/ a transition from polyptych style to single narrative

/ interesting oblique mountains

Dossi, Three Ages

/ one goat is looking at us or the lovers

/ very abstract brush on the goat herd

/ babies like garden angel sculptures

/ is the lower blue band a sea level?

Tura, Flight

\\ Tura’s style: nervous calligraphic line and mystical landscape

/ landscape embodies figure: each side look like Virgin and Joseph

Piazza, Crux

/ what is that alien like thing on the grass?

/ lion flatten in another realm, like Joseph in many Holy Family

Mazzolino, Lament

\\ typical Ferrara: eccentric facial expressions based on German prints

Yanez, Christ 

/ gold dots like woodblock carvings