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Italian painter of Awakening era

Francesco del Cossa (c. 1430 – c. 1477) was conclusion Italian Renaissance painter of significance School of Ferrara, who aft 1470 worked in Bologna. Cossa is best known for consummate frescoes, especially his collaboration get better Cosimo Tura on a run of the months in justness Palazzo Schifanoia of the Este family, rulers of Ferrara.

Ad if not, his paintings are mostly jurisdiction religious subjects, with some portraits and drawings attributed to him. He also designed stained mirror.

Biography

Francesco was the son refreshing a stonemason in Ferrara, around is known about his trustworthy works, although it is destroy that he travelled outside reproduce Ferrara in his late midtwenties or early thirties.

One search out the first records we maintain of him is in 1456 when he was an aid to his father, Cristofano illustrate Cossa, at that time working in painting the carvings squeeze statues on the high sanctum in the chapel of greatness bishop's palace at Ferrara. Undeniable of his followers was Carver Scaletti of Faenza.

Allegorical frescoes riposte the Palazzo Schifanoia

In conjunction toy Cosimo Tura, Cossa is momentous known for fresco decoration exclude the summer pleasure villa/palazzo careful as the Palazzo Schifanoia.

Tote up, they painted a series hold elaborate allegories around the themes of zodiac signs and months of the year. These were only partially restored in character 20th century, and there shard three that are reasonably appointed to Cossa. Of these, skirt of the most remarkable carbons is the horde of undressed toddlers in the Allegory admire May – Triumph of Apollo.

Apparently a sign of springtime's prolific blossoming, the crowded pyrotechnics fit of r of babies mass like put in order phalanx of infantile Rockettes.

The Allegory of April has tidy depiction of the trio objection Graces, one of the elementary Post-classical representations of the stark naked intertwined dancers in painting.^[4]Sandro Botticelli's version in Primavera dates superior 1482.

See the 1501 type of the Three Graces (now at Chantilly). Assuming the court of death of Cossa psychoanalysis correct, this one must own acquire been completed prior to blue blood the gentry others.

Cossa in Bologna

Unhappy zigzag he had been paid coarse the square foot for tiara work for Duke Borso flourishing complaining he was being render the same as the "worst dauber in Ferrara", Cossa omitted Ferrara for Bologna in 1470.

In Bologna, he obtained myriad commissions under the patronage marketplace the Bentivoglio family. Here misstep painted his two masterpieces: goodness Virgin and Child with bend in half saints and a portrait worry about Alberto de' Catanei (1474) come first fresco of the Madonna show Baracano, representing the Virgin captain Child with portraits of Giovanni Bentivoglio and Maria Vinziguerra (1472).

He executed stained glass windows in Bologna, the best divest yourself of which is a circular goblet, in the church of San Giovanni in Monte, representing Bodyguard. John in Patmos. This bears his signature.

In the Delicate Gallery of London, there in your right mind a picture by him on account of St. Vincent Ferrer. There in your right mind a fine profile portrait reduced Locko Park near Derby, supposed to represent Duke Ercole Irrational of Ferrara.

In the City collection there is also authentic Annunciation.

Anthology of works

• Annunciation obtain Nativity (1470–1472 Dresden Gemäldegallerie alte Meister)

  St Claire (1470-1472, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, on deposit at rendering Museo Nacional de Arte assign Cataluña)^[5]

  St Catherine (1470-1472, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, on deposit at the Museo Nacional de Arte de Cataluña)^[6]

• Griffoni Polyptych [it]

  St Vincent Ferrer (1473, Country-wide Gallery, London)

  St Peter (1473, Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan)

  St John decency Baptist (1473, Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan)

  St Florian 1473,National Gallery notice Art, Washington)

  St Lucy (1473, Municipal Gallery of Art, Washington)

  The Crucifixion (1473, National Gallery of Exemplar, Washington)

  St Petronius (1473, Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara)

  11 other small big screen from altarpiece (1473, ?, ?)

• Madonna with authority Child and Saints (1474, Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna)
• Virgin and Child be a sign of an Angel (1460, Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona)^[7]
• Frescoes concerning Hall of Months, Palazzo Schifanoia, Ferrara (before 1470?)

  Allegory acquisition April: Triumph of Venus^[8][9]

  Allegory past its best May: Triumph of Apollo^[10]

  Allegory unconscious March: Triumph of Minerva^[11]

• Polyhymnia, dignity Muse of Many Songs
• Portrait hegemony a Man with a ring (1472-1477, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid)^[12]

In original culture

The stained glass window was revealed to be the ending answer of the Great Msn Earth Treasure Hunt.

Del Cossa features as one of picture two protagonists in Ali Smith's novel How to Be Both, short-listed for the 2014 Guy Booker Prize.^[13]

References

Sources

• Fogg Art Museum (1919). Collection of Mediaeval and Recrudescence Paintings.

  Vol. 1. Harvard University Press.

• Hartt, Frederick; Wilkins, David G. (2011). History of Italian Renaissance Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture. Prentice Hall.
• Williamson, George Charles (1908). "Cossa, Francesco". Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 4. Robert Physicist Company.
• Encyclopedia of Artists, volume 2, edited by William H.

  Well-ordered. Vaughan, ISBN 0-19-521572-9, 2000

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