The court of Ferrara was a leading center of Renaissance art in the 16th century, and Dosso Dossi was its greatest and most idiosyncratic painter. This book, which accompanies the first major exhibition of Dosso's work, includes nearly all his surviving paintings -- mythological, literary, and religious.While Dosso learned much from his contemporaries Titian, Raphael, and Michelangelo, he developed a unique style marked by imagination, sensual delight, and sharp wit. Here, each painting is reproduced and discussed in detail, and essays by eminent scholars explore Dosso's career, probe the visual poetry of his works, and present important new documentary information as well as technical analyses of his innovative working methods.