Dosso dossi biography of martin luther king
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FEATURE image: Dosso Dossi (c. 1489–1542), Melissa, 1520s. 69.25 x 68.5 inches, Borghese Gallery, Rome.
Dosso Dossi (c. 1489-1542)– whose actual name was Giovanni de Lutero–was an Italian Renaissance painter who belonged to the School of Ferrara. Among scores of artists who painted mainly in the Venetian style influenced by Giorgione (c. 1477-1510), Dosso Dossi dominated the school that maintained its tradition of painterly artificiality.
Melissa is Dosso Dossi’s masterpiece: a benign personage in the Italian epic poem Orlando Furioso (1516) of Ludovico Ariosto (1574-1533). The enchantress frees humans from the black arts of the wicked sorceress Alcina. The painting depicts Melissa at the moment she burns the seals and spells of Alcina and liberates two men from the tree trunks.
The realistic dog is certainly a human being under Alcina’s spell who will be liberated by Melissa and take up again the suit of armor he watches earnestly. The trees a
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Stile Antico
27 January 2021
Father of the Renaissance
Our debut recording on the Decca Classics label is devoted to the wonderful music of Josquin des Prez, marking 500 years since his death in 1521. He was unquestionably a star in his own time: no lesser figure than Martin Luther called him “the master of the notes: they must do as he wills”, whilst for the theorist Glarean, “no one has more effectively expressed the passions of the soul in music… his talent is beyond description”. His music was key to the development of the high Renaissance style, and an important influence on later composers such as Palestrina, Lassus, and Victoria. So what is it about Josquin which exerted such a spell on the generations which followed him – and which still speaks so eloquently to us today?
Much about Josquin’s biography and career remains shadowy: it’s not always possible to pin down where he was working, and – with a few exceptions – the chronolog
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FEATURE Image: Signage of Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church, Chicago. The church is known as “the birthplace of Gospel music” since Thomas A. Dorsey (1899-1993) started his first modern gospel choir here in 1931. Author’s photograph, 10/2016 6.06 mb
SOURCES:
Alice Sinkevitch, AIA Guide to Chicago, 2nd Edition, Harcourt, Inc., stad i florida, 2004, p. 417.
chipublib.org/fa-ebenezer-missionary-baptist-church-archives/
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