Paintings by Ercole de’ Roberti are rare; his life was short and many of his works have been destroyed in the centuries since his death. Most famously, he was court artist for the Este family in Ferrara in the latter part of his career. By 1473 Roberti had left his native Ferrara and was working in Bologna alongside Francesco del Cossa, another artist from Ferrara with whom he probably trained. Bo
