Battista Dossi (ca. 1490-1548), also known as Battista de Luteri, was an Italian painter who belonged to the Ferrara School of Painting

School of Ferrara (painting)

The School of Ferrara was a group of painters which flourished in the Duchy of Ferrara during the Renaissance. Ferrara was ruled by the Este family, well known for its patronage of the arts. Patronage was extended with the ascent of Ercole d'Este I in 1470, and the family continued in power till...

. He spent nearly his entire career in service of the Court of Ferrara

Ferrara

Ferrara is a city and comune in Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy, capital city of the Province of Ferrara. It is situated 50 km north-northeast of Bologna, on the Po di Volano, a branch channel of the main stream of the Po River, located 5 km north...

, where he worked with his older brother Dosso Dossi

Dosso Dossi

Dosso Dossi , real name Giovanni di Niccolò de Luteri, was an Italian Renaissance painter who belonged to the Ferrara School of Painting.-Biography:Dossi was born in San Giovanni del Dosso a village in the province of Mantua...

 (c. 1489-1542). It is believed that Battista worked in the Rome studio of Raphael

Raphael

Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino , better known simply as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form and ease of composition and for its visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur...

 from 1517 to 1520. Battista’s students include Camillo Filippi (c. 1500-1574).

External links

• Battista Dossi in ArtCyclopedia
• Works by Battista Dossi at Census of Ferrarese Paintings and Drawings