The Antiques Roadshow expert picks A Muse by Cosimo Tura.
Ronnie Archer-Morgan on A Muse by Cosimo Tura
‘I love this Renaissance painting, partly because of the sheer precocious talent of the artist, Cosimo Tura, only 30 when he painted it for a duke of the d’Este family of Ferrara, Italy. The sumptuously dressed beauty (the detail minutely observed) sits sulkily and pensively on a theatrical throne decorated with six fantastical dolphins, ruby eyes and gleaming…
