Cosmè Tura
Cosmè Tura or Cosimo Tura is an Italian painter of the 15th century originating in the town of Ferrare. Certain historians agree to give him the dates of 1420 - 1430 like years of birth. It is difficult indeed to find an exact date of it since the only first documents speaking about Cosmè go back to these years there.
Vasari describes it like disciple of Galasso, itself disciple of Piero della Francesca. Cosmè Tura makes a stay with Padoue between 1453 and 1456. One owes him mainly the decoration of the wood panels which surrounded the organ of the cathedral of Ferrare (preserved today at the museum of the Dome of Ferrare). On the two external panels, was thus an episode of the life of Georges Saint, entitled Saint Georges and the princess . On both sides of the organ, the princess (on the left) and Holy Georges (on the right). Georges saint being the owner of the city, his representations are multiple.
Tura represented a famous episode of the life of holy Georges, in which this one assists from the girl from king de Silcha to Libya. This one had been indicated to be devoured by a dragon which threatened the city. This panel painted in 1469 is resulting from a policy of pictorial propaganda aiming at facing the offensive and expansionist policy of Mehmet II. Indeed, the Prise of Constantinople of 1453 caused many followers with the center even of Christendom. The Holy Georges and the Princess of Cosmè Tura are an allegory of the victory of of course the evil. Pie II, which unfortunately dies in 1464, had prepared the departure of a new crusade. This table is a symbol of the superiority of the Christian woman t-piece on the Turkish evil which fell down on the Roman Empire of the East.
Tura dies in 1495 with Ferrare.
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