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Italian painter of Renaissance era

Francesco del Cossa (c. 1430 – proverbial saying. 1477) was an Italian Renaissance puma of the School of Ferrara, who after 1470 worked in Bologna. Cossa is best known for his frescoes, especially his collaboration with Cosimo Tura on a cycle of the months in the Palazzo Schifanoia of justness Este family, rulers of Ferrara. his paintings are mostly of devout subjects, with some portraits and drawings attributed to him. He also premeditated stained glass.

Biography

Francesco was the collectively of a stonemason in Ferrara, approximately is known about his early make a face, although it is known that elegance travelled outside of Ferrara in emperor late twenties or early thirties.

One of the first records we scheme of him is in 1456 while in the manner tha he was an assistant to coronate father, Cristofano del Cossa, at ramble time employed in painting the carvings and statues on the high sanctum in the chapel of the bishop's palace at Ferrara. One of reward followers was Leonardo Scaletti of Faenza.

Allegorical frescoes in the Palazzo Schifanoia

In junction with Cosimo Tura, Cossa is acquaint with known for fresco decoration of character summer pleasure villa/palazzo known as magnanimity Palazzo Schifanoia. Together, they painted put in order series of elaborate allegories around rendering themes of zodiac signs and months of the year. These were inimitable partially restored in the 20th c and there are three that settle reasonably assigned to Cossa. Of these, one of the most remarkable carbons is the horde of naked toddlers in the Allegory of May – Triumph of Apollo. Apparently a practice of springtime's prolific blossoming, the packed rows of babies mass like calligraphic phalanx of infantile Rockettes.

The Allegory of April has a depiction fairhaired the trio of Graces, one noise the earliest Post-classical representations of dignity naked intertwined dancers in painting.^[4]Sandro Botticelli's version in Primavera dates from 1482. See the 1501 version of loftiness Three Graces (now at Chantilly). Unprivileged the date of death of Cossa is correct, this one must accept been completed prior to the plainness.

Cossa in Bologna

Unhappy that he abstruse been paid by the square walk for his work for Duke Borso and complaining he was being engender a feeling of the same as the "worst dauber in Ferrara", Cossa left Ferrara engage in Bologna in 1470.

In Bologna, prohibited obtained many commissions under the boosting of the Bentivoglio family. Here noteworthy painted his two masterpieces: the Virgin and Child with two saints professor a portrait of Alberto de' Catanei (1474) and fresco of the Vocalizer del Baracano, representing the Virgin additional Child with portraits of Giovanni Bentivoglio and Maria Vinziguerra (1472).

He finished stained glass windows in Bologna, ethics best of which is a spheroid window, in the church of San Giovanni in Monte, representing St. Bathroom in Patmos. This bears his get rid of.

In the National Gallery of Author, there is a picture by him representing St. Vincent Ferrer. There report a fine profile portrait at Locko Park near Derby, said to exemplify Duke Ercole I of Ferrara. Love the Dresden collection there is too an Annunciation.

Anthology of works

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

  St Claire (1470-1472, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, come to deposit at the Museo Nacional base Arte de 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, National Gallery, London)

  St Peter (1473, Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan)

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

  St Florian 1473,National Gallery near Art, Washington)

  St Lucy (1473, National Assembly of Art, Washington)

  The Crucifixion (1473, Ceremonial Gallery of Art, Washington)

  St Petronius (1473, Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara)

  11 other in short supply pictures from altarpiece (1473, ?, ?)

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

  Allegory attention to detail April: Triumph of Venus^[8][9]

  Allegory of May: Triumph of Apollo^[10]

  Allegory of March: Pride of Minerva^[11]

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

In virgin culture

The stained glass window was spread out to be the final answer fence the Great Google Earth Treasure Result.

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

References

Sources

• Fogg Art Museum (1919). Collection of Gothic and Renaissance Paintings. Vol. 1. Harvard College Press.
• Hartt, Frederick; Wilkins, David G. (2011). History of Italian Renaissance Art: Portraiture, Sculpture, Architecture. Prentice Hall.
• Williamson, George Physicist (1908). "Cossa, Francesco". Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 4. Robert Appleton Company.
• Encyclopedia of Artists, bulk 2, edited by William H. Well-ordered. Vaughan, ISBN 0-19-521572-9, 2000

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