. The painters of the school of Ferrara. 31, or shortly afterwards. Between 1532and 1534, the two Dossi worked for the prince-bishopof Trent, Cardinal Bernardo Clesio, in his Castello delBuon Consiglio, where some remains of their frescoesstill exist, including one by Dosso himself, representingthe Cardinal with his patron Saint before the BlessedVirgin.^ Most of the decorative work executed by Dosso andBattista for the various ducal palaces in Ferrara hasperished, and very few of the pictures recorded in theadministration of the Camera Ducale can now beidentified. It was probably for some pal
. The painters of the school of Ferrara. 31, or shortly afterwards. Between 1532and 1534, the two Dossi worked for the prince-bishopof Trent, Cardinal Bernardo Clesio, in his Castello delBuon Consiglio, where some remains of their frescoesstill exist, including one by Dosso himself, representingthe Cardinal with his patron Saint before the BlessedVirgin.^ Most of the decorative work executed by Dosso andBattista for the various ducal palaces in Ferrara hasperished, and very few of the pictures recorded in theadministration of the Camera Ducale can now beidentified. It was probably for some palace chamberof Duke Alfonso that Dosso himself painted the largerCirce and the Pomona and Vertunmus, alreadymentioned, as also the Apollo of the Villa Borghese,a work that would be as splendid in colour as the 1 Cf. Henry Thode, Bit Villa Monte Imperiale hci Pcsaro ; G ruyer,II. pp. 272-275 ; Giulio Vaccaj, Fesaro, Bergamo, 1909, pp. 62-68. 2 Cf. Gruyer, II. pp. 275, 276. • T •? • « • ? ».• • •• • • t • • 1*. I Antlisun l>()ssi THE NATIVITY >Io(leiia To/ace paijc 16U DOSSO AND BATTISTA DOSSI i6i others but for the varnish, and is as romantic intreatment. The god of song, laurel-crowned, is seatedin an autumnal landscape, playing the violin in anerotic frenzy, while, far away, the white-robed Daphnebecomes a laurel. The very trees seem to have caughtthe hopeless passion of a god, who strikes the lastnote of his music before the storm, which is alreadybreaking over the little town in the background:— For \o, the thunder Imshing all the did Love live, not even Love could sing. Some details of the decorations of a hall, probablyin the Castello Vecchio, are preserved in the picturesat Dresden. They are late works, executed underErcole IL, in which Dosso was assisted not only byBattista, but by various pupils and apprentices, amongwhom was Girolamo da Carpi. The St. Michaeland the St. George, apparently from the designs ofRaphael,
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