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The Camerini d'alabastro (''little rooms of
alabaster
Alabaster is a mineral or rock that is soft, often used for carving, and is processed for plaster powder. Archaeologists and the stone processing industry use the word differently from geologists. The former use it in a wider sense that includes ...
'') are a range of rooms built over the Via Coperta in
Ferrara
Ferrara (, ; egl, Fràra ) is a city and ''comune'' in Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy, capital of the Province of Ferrara. it had 132,009 inhabitants. It is situated northeast of Bologna, on the Po di Volano, a branch channel of the main stream ...
, northern
Italy
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, linking the
Castello Estense
The ' (‘ Este castle’) or ' (‘St. Michael's castle’) is a moated medieval castle in the center of Ferrara, northern Italy. It consists of a large block with four corner towers.
History
On 3 May 1385, the Ferrarese people, driven to des ...
to the
Palazzo Ducale Several palaces are named Ducal Palace (Italian: ''Palazzo Ducale'' ) because it was the seat or residence of a duke.
Notable palaces with the name include:
France
* Palace of the Dukes of Burgundy, Dijon
* Palace of the Dukes of Lorraine, Nancy
* ...
. They may have included the ''studiolo'' or little
study
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* Study (art), a drawing or series of drawi ...
of
Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara
Alfonso d'Este (21 July 1476 – 31 October 1534) was Duke of Ferrara during the time of the War of the League of Cambrai.
Biography
He was the son of Ercole I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara and Eleanor of Naples and became duke on Ercole's death in ...
.
Further reading
*Bayer, Andrea, in ''Dosso Dossi: Court Painter in Renaissance Ferrara'', 1998, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), J. Paul Getty Museum
pp. 31–40*Freedman, Luba, ''Classical Myths in Italian Renaissance Painting'', 2011, pp. 44–48, Cambridge University Press, , 9781107001190
google books*Jaffé, David (ed), ''Titian'', The National Gallery Company/Yale, London 2003, {{ISBN, 1 857099036, pp. 101–111
Buildings and structures in Ferrara
Alabaster
Individual rooms