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Lorenzo Costa (1460-1535)
Aliases:
Lorenzo "di" Ottavio Costa;
Lorenzo (1460) Costa
Professions:
Painter;
Miniaturist
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Biography
(b
Ferrara,
c
.
1460;
d
Mantua,
5
March
1535).
He
was
the
son
of
a
painter,
Giovanni
Battista
(?)Costa,
and
he
received
his
early
training
in
the
studio
of
Ercole
de’
Roberti
in
Ferrara.
Probably
in
the
early
1480s
he
moved
to
Bologna,
where
he
became
the
favoured
artist
of
Giovanni
II
Bentivoglio
(see
BENTIVOGLIO,
(2)).
Major
commissions
for
Bolognese
churches
suggest
that
at
one
time
he
was
the
most
sought-after
artist
in
Bologna.
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