FERRARA 



In the rare picture by Bono, who signs himself "a Bono da 

 pupil of Pisano " (National Gallery), besides the lion of p^i4t"i46i 

 the story there is a deer, very good in drawing, but 

 quite out of proportion to the landscape. It is cropping 

 the leaves of a hedge on the top of a rock in the back- 

 ground. A flock of birds flies across the sky. 



Giovanni di Lutero, who adopted the name of DossoDossi, 

 Dosso Dossi, has at least twice painted the evidently ^479-i542 

 congenial subject of Circe, surrounded by the birds 

 and beasts that were once her lovers. In the Rome 

 example (Borghese Gallery) she is seated in a meadow 

 with hound and bird by her side. In that belonging 

 to Mr. Benson she has around her a brown greyhound, 

 a white puppy, a stag with his antlers in the velvet, 

 a hawk, an owl, two lions and a spoonbill. There is also 

 a hind standing before her. The painting of the lion, 

 in contrast with the other animals, is uncommonly poor. 

 Dossi evidently worked carefully from the model, and 

 his work went to pieces when he had not the concrete 

 fact before him. But lions were quite common in Italy 

 in his time, being kept publicly at Rome and Florence, 

 as well as in the collections of many nobles. 



In the Holy Family at Hampton Court the Child 

 has His arm round the neck of a white cock, and holds 

 in His hands a ribbon which is tied to its foot. 



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