Cosme (Cosimo) Tura was among the most striking and inventive painters of the Italian Renaissance. This study discusses Tura's place in quattrocento painting, and examines his critical fortunes over the centuries. The painter is placed in a broad artistic context, including a consideration of the artist's relationship to painting from the Veneto, local manuscript illuminations, and Ferrarese poetry of the time. A large part of the text is devoted to placing his art in the historical and cultural context of Estense Ferrara, where he worked for more than three decades. Transcriptions of all the documents that relate to Tura's varied and active career as an artist, especially those that record his work as court painter for the Estensi are included, and a catalogue raisonne provides detailed information on Tura's known works. There is commentary and bibliography on other attributions, and illustrations of all of Tura's works.
- ISBN10 0198174241
- ISBN13 9780198174240
- Publish Date 1 January 2000
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 4 August 2006
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Oxford University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 364
- Language English