The school evolved styles of painting that appeared to blend influences from Mantua, Venice, Lombardy, Bologna, and Florence.
Much of the local collections, like those of the Gonzaga family in Mantua, were dispersed with the end of the Este line in 1598.
Especially in the late 15th century Ferrara was also a main centre of engraving in Italy.
The most famous prints it produced are the two sets traditionally, if inaccurately, known as the Mantegna Tarocchi, each by an unidentified master.
A list of painters of the School of Ferrara, with the page for the title entry in Camillo Laderchi's 1856 artist biography, includes: