Cosmè Tura - The Life and Art of a Painter in Estense Ferrara
Joseph Manca
Oxford University Press
2000
This is the first major monograph to appear in forty years of the major Italian Renaissance paitner, Cosme Tura. Tura worked for the Estense court in Ferrara which was one of the leading cultural centers in fifteenth-century Italy. The richly illustrated book includes a catalogue raisonné and full transcriptions of the original documents that record his life.