TURA, Cosmè
(b. ca. 1430, Ferrara, d. 1495, Ferrara)

A Muse (Calliope?)

1455-60
Oil with egg on poplar, 116 x 71 cm
National Gallery, London

Tura was the foremost painter of a series of pictures of the Muses for a 'studiolo' or study at the Este castle of Belfiore near Ferrara. This picture is thought to be one of the series. It would have been displayed high up in a room, hence the low vanishing-point.




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