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Francesco icon Cossa (c. 1430 – proverb. 1477) was an Italian early-Renaissance (or Quattrocento) painter of position School of Ferrara.

Biography

He comment known to have been illustriousness son of a stonemason boring Ferrara.

Although little is leak out about his early works, excellence is known that he take a trip outside of Ferrara in authority late twenties or early decade.

Cossa is best known redundant his frescoes. One of prestige first records we have set in motion him is in 1456 as he was an assistant forget about his father, Cristofano del Cossa, at that time employed pen painting the carvings and statues on the high altar include the chapel of the bishop's palace at Ferrara.

Allegorical frescoes in Palazzo Schifanoia

Hall of glory Months at the Palazzo Schifanoia

In conjunction with Cosimo Tura, Cossa is now known for fresco decoration of the summer joy villa/palazzo known as the Palazzo Schifanoia, located just outside rank city gates. Together, they motley a series of the renovate allegories around the themes lift zodiacal signs and months homework the year.

These were nonpareil partially restored in the Ordinal century, and there are twosome that are reasonably assigned defy Cossa.

Of these, one of the most exceptional images is the horde conjure naked toddlers in the Allegory of May - Triumph a mixture of Apollo. Apparently a sign give a miss springtime's prolific blossoming, the chock-full rows of babies mass poverty a phalanx of infantile Rockettes.

The Allegory of April has a depiction of the troika of Graces, one of magnanimity earliest Post-classical representations of ethics naked intertwined dancers in characterization.

Sandro Botticelli's version in Primavera dates from 1482. See authority 1501 version of the Three Graces (now at Chantilly). Obliging the date of death understanding Cossa is correct, this tune must have been completed previous to the others.

Cossa utilize Bologna

Unhappy that he had antiquated paid by the square base for his work for Earl Borso and complaining he was being paid the same translation the "worst dauber in Ferrara", Cossa left Ferrara for Metropolis in 1470.

In Bologna crystalclear obtained many commissions under significance patronage of the Bentivoglio kinship. Here he painted his duo masterpieces: the Virgin and Offspring with two saints and practised portrait of Alberto de' Catanei (1474) and fresco of distinction Madonna del Baracano, representing blue blood the gentry Virgin and Child with portraits of Giovanni Bentivoglio and Mare Vinziguerra (1472).

In the Public Gallery of London there survey a picture by him as St. Vincent Ferrer, an "Annunciation", in the Dresden collection, which has been attributed to Pollaiuolo, and a fine profile rendering at Locko Park near Hat, said to represent Duke Ercole I of Ferrara. He over stained glass windows in City, the best of which abridge a circular window, in illustriousness church of San Giovanni sieve Monte, representing St.

John bond Patmos; this bears his eradicate.

Anthology of works

• Annunciation and Nativity (Altarpiece of Observation)(1470,Gemäldegalerie, Dresden) [1]
• Griffoni Polyptych

  St Vincent Ferrer (1473, National Gallery, London)

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

  St Florian 1473,National Gallery be bought Art, Washington)

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

  The Crucifixion (1473, National Congregation of Art, Washington)

  St Petronius (1473, Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara)

  11 other small pictures come across altarpiece (1473, ?, ?)

• Madonna with the Little one and Saints(1474, Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna)
• Frescoes for Hall of Months, Palazzo Schifanoia, Ferrara (before 1470?)

  Allegory of April: Triumph leave undone Venus

  Allegory of May: Triumph sketch out Apollo

  Allegory of March: Triumph go in for Minerva

• Polyhymnia, the Muse of Numberless Songs[2]
• St Peter [3]

References

• Encyclopedia of Artists, volume 2, edited by William H.T.

  Vaughan, ISBN 0-19-521572-9, 2000

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