Artists

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  Madonna with the Child Enthroned $AU 228.68 ~ 2,111.11
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  Saint Jerome $AU 625.09
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  Spring $AU 253.44 ~ 896.38
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  St George $AU 235.40 ~ 932.96

Cosme Tura (c. 1430 Ferrara-1495 Ferrara), whose actual name is Cosimo Tura, is considered the master of Renaissance painting in Ferrara. He probably encountered the local Gothic tradition of painting during his appenticeship, but he also owed much to the avant-garde artists from Padua, shere Tura likely spent the years 1452-1546, including Donatello, Francesco Squarcione and the young Andrea Mantegna, Afterward Tura became court painter to the Este family in Ferrara, as is noted in many documents but in only a few surviving paintings. Tura's pictures distiguish themselves through their clarity of line, while his figures are characterized by a hard plasticity and late Gothic restlessness of form. In later works this is intensified into passionate emotion. Important works by the artist include Portrait of a Young Man of the Este Family, 1451, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Virgin and Child with Musician Angels, The National Gallery, London; and The Penitent St. Jeromem c. 1480, The National Gallery, London.