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Salome Presenting the Head of the Baptist to Herod
(Giovanni Luteri, called Dosso Dossi)

Measurements
49x39 cm
Type
Panel
Provenance

Lazzaroni Collection, Rome circa 1940.

Literature

Roberto Longhi Supplement to Officina Ferrarese, 1940; 1956 Edition, p. 157-8; V. Lazareff, ‘ A Dosso Problem’, in Art in America, 1941, p. 132-3; M. G. Trenti, Attivita Giovanile di Dosso, Bologna University Dissertation 1960-61, p. 408; A. Mezzetti, Il Dosso e Battista Ferrarese, 1965, p. 10, cat. no. 97, p. 96, pl. no. 1; Felton Gibbons, Dosso and Battista Dossi, Court Painter at Ferrara, 1968, p. 119, p. 188, cat. no. 40, figs. 16-17; B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance, Central and North Italian School, 1968, vol. I, p. 114 as Homeless, pl. 1740; C. Volpe, ‘Una Pala d’Altare del Giovane Dosso’, in Cultura Figurativa Ferrarese tra XV e XVI Secolo, 1982, p. 141, fig. 4.

Historical Period
High Renaissance to Mannerism - 1450-1530
Subject
Religious: New Testament
School
Italian - Other Regions
Catalogue
1984-From Borso to Cesare d'Este, 1450 - 1628: The School of Ferrara.
An exhibition in aid of The Courtauld Institute Trust Appeal Fund. Ten introductory essays on Ferrara and aspects of Ferrarese art by Cecil Gould, Lanfranco Caretti, Claudio Gallico, Vincenzo Fontana, Thomas Tuohy, Emmanuele Mattaliano, Giorgio Bassani, Giuliano Briganti, Alastair Smith, with charts and Concordat of Ferrarese paintings in British public collections. 200 pages, 50 colour plates, 84 black and white illustrations. £15 or $23 inc. p&p.

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