Cosmè Tura

Tura, Cosimo

Ferrarese, c. 1433 - 1495

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Italian painter (1430-1495)

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Cosmè Tura, The Virgin Annunciate [middle right panel], c. 1470/1480, tempera and distemper on panel, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1952.2.6.c

The Virgin Annunciate [middle right panel]

Cosmè Tura · c. 1470/1480 · tempera and distemper on panel ·  Accession ID  1952.2.6.c

Cosmè Tura, Saint Louis of Toulouse, c. 1470/1480, tempera and distemper on panel, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1952.2.6.d

Saint Louis of Toulouse

Cosmè Tura · c. 1470/1480 · tempera and distemper on panel ·  Accession ID  1952.2.6.d

Cosmè Tura, Saint Francis [far left panel], c. 1470/1480, tempera and distemper on panel, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1952.2.6.a

Saint Francis [far left panel]

Cosmè Tura · c. 1470/1480 · tempera and distemper on panel ·  Accession ID  1952.2.6.a

Cosmè Tura, The Annunciation with Saint Francis and Saint Louis of Toulouse [four panels], c. 1470/1480, tempera and distemper on panel, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1952.2.6.a-d

The Annunciation with Saint Francis and Saint Louis of Toulouse [four panels]

Cosmè Tura · c. 1470/1480 · tempera and distemper on panel ·  Accession ID  1952.2.6.a-d

Cosmè Tura, Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata, 1470s, miniature on vellum, Rosenwald Collection, 1946.21.14

Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata

Cosmè Tura · 1470s · miniature on vellum ·  Accession ID  1946.21.14

Cosmè Tura, The Archangel Gabriel [middle left panel], c. 1470/1480, tempera and distemper on panel, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1952.2.6.b

The Archangel Gabriel [middle left panel]

Cosmè Tura · c. 1470/1480 · tempera and distemper on panel ·  Accession ID  1952.2.6.b

A woman sits facing us on a stone bench with her hands in prayer over the head of a baby who sleeps, propped up between the woman’s knees in this vertical painting. The wood panel on which this is painted is framed by carved, curling gold vines encircling two small people in the upper corners. All the people have pale skin, and plate-like, shiny gold halos seem to rest atop the woman and child’s heads. The woman tilts her head to her left, our right, to look toward the baby with lowered eyes. Her skin is smooth and a translucent white cloth covers her head. She wears a cherry-red dress under a teal-blue cloak that falls in folds over her arms and legs, and pools around her shins and feet. She steeples her elongated fingers to touch in front of her chest. The baby wears a forest-green robe and has bare feet. He props his chin on crossed forearms, which rest on the woman’s left leg, to our right. He has blond, curly hair and delicate features. The woman sits on a stone bench with a base decorated with tan designs against a vivid orange background. Tufts of grass grow in a few areas near her feet and the bench in the dirt ground. A cloud of crimson-red, swirling forms, perhaps blossoms, behind the woman is flanked to each side by leafy, dark green bushes bearing green, round fruit. In a roundel made by the scrolling gold vine in the upper left is occupied by a winged angel facing our right in profile. The angel wears a plum-purple robe over a pine-green garment, and holds up the first two fingers of one hand, palm facing out. In the roundel in top right corner, a woman wearing a dark purple robe covering her head and body over a ruby-red dress sits facing our left in profile. She rests one hand on a book on a wooden desk in front of her and the other hand is raised, palm facing out. The background behind the roundels and the pair below is midnight blue.
Cosmè Tura, Madonna and Child in a Garden, c. 1460/1470, tempera (and possibly oil) on poplar panel, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1952.5.29

Madonna and Child in a Garden

Cosmè Tura · c. 1460/1470 · tempera (and possibly oil) on poplar panel ·  Accession ID  1952.5.29

Bibliography

1941

  • Ortolani, Sergio. Cosmè Tura, Francesco del Cossa, Ercole de' Roberti. Milan, 1941: 5-82.

1956

  • Longhi, Roberto. Officina ferrarese (1934), seguíta dagli Ampliamenti (1940) e dai Nuovi ampliamenti (1940-1955). Florence, 1956: 23-27, 125-127, 179.

1957

  • Salmi, Mario. Cosmè Tura. Milan, 1957.

1958

  • Ruhmer, Eberhard. Tura: Paintings and Drawings. London and New York, 1958.

1996

  • Lippincott, Kristin. In Dictionary of Art 1996, 3-428-433.

1997

  • Campbell, Stephen. Cosmè Tura of Ferrara: Style, Politics and the Renaissance City, 1450-1495. New Haven and London, 1997.

2000

  • Manca, Joseph. Cosmè Tura: The Life and Art of a Painter in Estense Ferrara. Oxford, 2000.

2002

  • Cosmè Tura: Painting and Design in Renaissance Ferrara. Stephen Campbell et al. Ed. Alan Chong. Exh. cat. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, 2002.

2003

  • Boskovits, Miklós, and David Alan Brown, et al. Italian Paintings of the Fifteenth Century. The Systematic Catalogue of the National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 2003: 655.