Baldassare d'Este

Baldassare Estense

Ferrarese, 1432 - after 1506

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Italian painter and medalist

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Shown from the shoulders up, a pale-skinned boy faces the left in profile against a lapis-blue background in this vertical portrait painting. He stares steadily forward with brown eyes, rosy cheeks, and closed pink lips. His chin is pulled slightly down and back. The boy's brown hair falls from bangs across his forehead in a straight, diagonal line to the nape of his neck. He wears a brimless black cap with a high, rounded crown. His high-necked, black garment has gold, black, and pearl embellishments around the neckline and down the front. The collar is edged with white along the top.
Baldassare d'Este, Francesco II Gonzaga, Fourth Marquis of Mantua, c. 1474/1480, tempera on poplar panel, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1943.4.41

Francesco II Gonzaga, Fourth Marquis of Mantua

Baldassare d'Este · c. 1474/1480 · tempera on poplar panel ·  Accession ID  1943.4.41

Baldassare d'Este, Ercole I d'Este, 1431-1505, Duke of Ferrara, Modena, and Reggio 1471, 1472, brass//With loop, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1957.14.629

Ercole I d'Este, 1431-1505, Duke of Ferrara, Modena, and Reggio 1471

Baldassare d'Este · 1472 · brass//With loop ·  Accession ID  1957.14.629

Baldassare d'Este, Ercole on Horseback [reverse], c. 1472, bronze, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1957.14.1267.b

Ercole on Horseback [reverse]

Baldassare d'Este · c. 1472 · bronze ·  Accession ID  1957.14.1267.b

Baldassare d'Este, Ercole I d'Este, 1431-1505, Duke of Ferrara, Modena, and Reggio 1471 [obverse], c. 1472, bronze, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1957.14.1267.a

Ercole I d'Este, 1431-1505, Duke of Ferrara, Modena, and Reggio 1471 [obverse]

Baldassare d'Este · c. 1472 · bronze ·  Accession ID  1957.14.1267.a

Bibliography

1907

  • Venturi, Adolfo. "Baldassare Estense." In Thieme-Becker 1907-1950, 2:387-389.

1915

  • Cook, Herbert. "Further Light on Baldassare d'Este." The Burlington Magazine 27 (June 1915): 98-104.

1956

  • Longhi, Roberto. Officina ferrarese (1934), seguíta dagli Ampliamenti (1940) e dai Nuovi ampliamenti (1940-1955). Florence, 1956: 48-51, 137-138, 182-184.

1958

  • Calvesi, Maurizio. "Nuovi affreschi ferraresi dell'Oratorio della Concezione--I." Bollettino d'Arte 43 (April-June 1958): 141-156.

1959

  • Shapley, Fern Rusk. "Baldassare d'Este and a Portrait of Francesco II Gonzaga." Studies in the History of Art, dedicated to William E. Suida on his Eightieth Birthday. London, 1959: 124-128.

1960

  • Arslan, Edoardo. "Baldassare d'Este." In Dizionario biografico degli italiani. Edited by Alberto Maria Ghisalberti. 79+ vols. Rome, 1960+: 5(1963):444-445.

1963

  • Nironi, V. "Contributo alla biografia del pittore Baldassarre da Reggio." Nuove lettere emiliane (May 1963): 33-36.

1982

  • Benati, Daniele. "Per il problema di 'Vicino da Ferrara' (alias Baldassarre d'Este?)." Paragone 33, no. 393 (1982): 3-26.

1984

  • Manca, Joseph. "Ercole de' Roberti and Baldassare d'Este: Two Portraits in Miniature." Antichità viva 23, no. 2 (1984): 15=20.

1990

  • Bacchi, Andrea. "Baldassare d'Este: Ritratto di Tito Vespasiano Strozzi." In Dipinti derraresi dalla collezione Vittorio Cini. Vicenza, 1990: 44-51.

1993

  • Manca, Joseph. "Chi era Baldassarre d'Este?: una riconsiderazione e una nuova attribuzione." Bollettino d'Arte 78, no. 79 (May-June 1993): 73-84.

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: 46.