Figures representing March (holding a hunting horn) and April (youth holding flowers) by the Master of the Months of Ferrara (active in the first half of the 13th century). Cathedral Museum, Ferrara. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.
Decorative figure on furniture in the Palazzina di Marfisa d'Este, Ferrara. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.
Saint Paul from the sepulcher of Francesco Sacrati (c. 1461) by Antonio and Bernardo Rossellino. Cathedral Museum, Ferrara. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.
Portrait of Cicero by Bartolomeo Cavaceppi (c. 1716–99). Collection of the Musei Civici di Arte Antica e Museo Riminaldi, Palazzo Bonacossi, Ferrara. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.
The Infant Jesus and the Holy Spirit, 16th century (?), unknown sculptor. Cathedral Museum, Ferrara. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.
Statue of the Dominican friar, religious reformer, and political revolutionary Girolamo Savonarola in Piazza Savonarola. Best known for temporarily ending Medici rule in Florence at the end of the 15th century, Savonarola was originally from Ferrara. Here, he is celebrated by his birth city in an unusually dramatic and severe monument. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.
Madonna and Child by Antonio Rossellino, from the sepulcher of Francesco Sacrati, c. 1461. Cathedral Museum, Ferrara. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.