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Article: An observer of charms & hurts: Dosso of Ferrara.(Giovanni Luteri, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York)
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- New Criterion
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- April 1, 1999
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The exhibition "Dosso Dossi, Court Painter in Renaissance Ferrara" comes as a delightful surprise.(1) It is delightful in showing for the first time a marvelous and somewhat eccentric painter. It is a surprise because he has never been on the roster of artists famous enough to be exhibited. To be sure, we do not limit exhibitions to the Picassos, but also do them for the Delaunays, not only for the mass audience of van Gogh but also for the somewhat fewer connoisseurs of Bonnard, who then surprises and pleases a large audience. Yet we rarely extend our appreciation of a Renaissance artist like Titian to the next level of Dosso, whom the Metropolitan's director describes ...
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