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Week 12
Art at the Este court in Ferrara

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Important names and terms

· Leonello d’Este and Maria of Aragon

· Borso d’Este

· Ercole d’Este and Eleonora of Aragon

Study Images

· Antonio Pisanello, Medal for John VIII Palaeologus, Emperor of Constantinople, 1438

· Antonio Pisanello, Marriage medal for Leonello d’Este, 1441-1444 (reverse)

· Antonio Pisanello, Leonello d’Este, 1441

· Cosimo Tura, Allegorical figure (the Muse Calliope?), 1458-60

· Francesco del Cossa (after Cosimo Tura), frescoes at the Hall of the Months, late 1460s-early 1470s, Palazzo Schifanoia, Ferrara

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· Guido Mazzoni, The Lamentation, c. 1484-1485

· Biagio Rosseti, Palazzo dei Diamante, Ferrara, 1493-1504

· Ercole de’ Roberti, The wife of Asdrubal and her children, 1480-1490

Additional Images

· Francesco Laurana, Bust of a lady, c. 1470

· Ercole de’ Roberti, Portia and Brutus, c. 1490

· Ercole de’ Roberti, Lucretia, c. 1490