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	Search:: Artists Alphabetically   Symbolism   50 Greatest Paintings   Art Movements Important Farrarese School Painters Farrarese Artists Centered around Ferrara, Italy A unsympathetic, glacial and ascetic spirit pervades the work of  the school of Ferrara. The character of the Duchy of Ferrara is more northern then Italian. The city and surroundings sits on a flat plain, monotonous and lackluster, stretching out like a mighty morose illusion, filling the human spirit with religious mystification. In the time of the Renaissance the landscape consisted of endless fields separated by the occasional, straggly, leafless mulberry tree. Severe and unrefined, defiant and ominous, the Palazzo Schifanoja towers aloft. The building was the site on many treacherous intrigues and bloody tragedies. The streets of Ferrara are plain looking and straight, and are flanked by palaces built of dark brick in the same severe and cheerless style. Piero della Francesca was employed by the court of Lionello and instructed local Farrarese painters. Francesca passed on his preference for light grey values and wide extensive landscapes from which figures arose like statues. Roger van der also Weyden also played an important role in the development of the Farrarese style. He  spent some time in the city and local painters latched onto his Netherlandish asceticism.   The Farrarese School and the cycle of frescos in the plaza Schifanoja, is characteristic of the medieval spirit of the style. While the Florentines narrated a worldly manner, the Farrarese reach back to medieval allegory.  No other Italian school stands as near to naturalism nor took such delight in stark and disagreeable lines, callous hands and emaciated bodies quaking as if with fever. The color, the harsh juxtaposition of lemon yellow, blue, and vermilion, even heightens the harsh and solemn effect of the Farrarese paintings.    Important painters of the Farrarese School Listed Alphabetically Lorenzo Costa (1460-1535) Italian, Ferrara School, High Renaissance Dosso Dossi (1490 - 1542) Italian, Ferrara School, High Renaissance Ercole de’Roberti (1450-1496) Italian, Ferrara School, Renaissance Garofalo (1481-1559) Italian, Ferrara School, Renaissance, ☼☼☼☼☼ ☼☼☼☼☼ Search for Artists by Century Important Painters Born in the 13th Century Important Painters Born in the 14th Century Important Painters Born in the 15th Century Important Painters Born in the 16th Century Important Painters Born in the 17th Century Important Painters Born in the 18th Century Important Painters Born in the 19th Century   Require more facts and information about Famous Artists?  Search Here Links Symbolism If you feel you have worthwhile information you would like to contribute we would love to hear from you. We collect essential biographical information and artist quotes from folks all over the globe and appreciate your participation. When submitting please, if possible, site the source and provide English translation.  Please submit your comment to the editor, via e-mail and if possible site the source. Thank you! millardmulch@gmail.com © HistoryofPainters.com If you like this page and wish to share it, you are welcome to link to it, with our thanks. copyright 20003 - historyofpainters.com