{"id":7382,"date":"2014-07-03T13:06:54","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T11:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/?p=7382"},"modified":"2022-11-17T09:22:44","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T08:22:44","slug":"according-to-dosso-dossi-jupiter-paints-like-damien-hirst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/07\/03\/according-to-dosso-dossi-jupiter-paints-like-damien-hirst\/","title":{"rendered":"According to Dosso Dossi Jupiter’s painting lies between Odilon Redon and Damien Hirst"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dosso Dossi, Jupiter, Mercury and Virtue, 1530-1540?, oil on canvas.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Among the paintings by Niccol\u00f2 Luteri, alias Dosso Dossi, that will be exhibited at the Castello del Buon Consiglio in Trento<\/a> in occasion of the great show dedicated to the artist (from 12 July to 2 November) the visitor will find the renown \u201cJupiter, Mercury and Virtue\u201d, a picture of an extraordinary contemporary appeal.<\/p>\n

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According to art historians (Berenson, 1907; Chastel, 1984; Biasini, 1995; Farinella 2007) this canvas \u2013 confiscated by the Nazi from Count Lanckoronski’s family in 1939 and now preserved at the Wawel Royal Castle<\/a> in Krakow \u2013 represents Mercury asking a female figure, probably Iris \u2013 Juno’s messenger and goddess of Eloquence \u2013 to keep quite while Jupiter is painting butterflies.<\/p>\n

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At the time the artist is supposed to have conceived this image, he was already famous among the main Italian courts, having worked for the Gonzaga in Mantova, for Alfonso d’Este in Ferrara, and for the Della Rovere family in Pesaro. According to Giorgia Biasini (1995), the painting was commissioned to Dosso by Alfonso d’Este, to whom the Jupiter painted by the artist resembles, and whose favorite device was a flaming bomb known as \u201cgranata svampante\u201d similar to the one painted at Jupiter’s feet representing the Duke’s interest in artillery production.<\/p>\n

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With such an artist, and considering the sophisticated cultural scene he was part of, the possible historical interpretations of this image are more than one, all of them starting from what Jupiter, Mercury, and the gentle plump woman at the right side of the canvas stand for according to the classical mythology \u2013 Iris or the personification of Virtue? But once all the possibilities have been verified one should turn to what Jupiter is painting and how he is doing it: one adult butterfly and possibly two moths on a blue sky. The three elements \u2013 painted by the kings of Gods himself with a surprising photographic approach \u2013 prefigure images later conceived by artists such as Odilon Redon<\/a>, but also Damien Hirst, Rinko Kawauchi, or Ryan McGinley for example. Jupiter \u2013 or Dosso Dossi \u2013 is painting as if he were a symbolist living during the end of the 19th century, a chinese old master or indeed an artist aware of the conceptual side over the found object revealed by Marcel Duchamp.<\/p>\n

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