(b Ferrara, ?1430; d Ferrara, April 1495). Italian painter. He was court painter to the Este family of Ferrara from 1458 until the mid-1480s. He was the first and one of the greatest representatives of the Ferrarese school of painting, but many of his most important works, including the decoration of the library of Pico della Mirandola (1463–94), have been either destroyed or dismantled, and some of his large-scale altarpieces are divided between collections. His career is well recorded and provides a vivid illustration of the role and duties of a 15th-century court artist.

• Tura, Cosimo
  • Ferrara, §2: Art life and organization
  • Italy, §III, 3(ii)(b): Early Renaissance painting, c 1400–c 1500: Other centres
  • attributions
    • Ferrara, §4(ii): Palazzo Schifanoia
  • collaboration
    • Angelo del Macagnino
    • Guarino da Verona
  • patrons and collectors
    • Campana, Giampietro
    • Correr: (2) Teodoro Correr
    • Drury Lowe, William
    • Este (i): (4) Borso d’Este
    • Fesch, Joseph
    • Giorgio d’Alemagna
    • Layard, Austen Henry
  • works
    • Ferrara, §3: Centre of tapestry production
    • Gothic, §IX, 2(i): Tapestry and embroidery: Production
    • Tapestry, §II, 1(iii): Before 1500: Other centres