Giovanni Battista Costa (painter, born 1833)

Not to be confused with Giovanni Costa (painter, born 1826).

Giovanni Battista Costa (1833–1893), also called Giovanni Costa, was an Italian genre painter.

Life

Giovanni Battista Costa was born in Livorno on 12 May 1833. He was a student at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze and worked afterwards in Florence, where he died on 6 December 1893. He painted genre scenes and historical costume pictures, especially scenes from ancient Rome and the Orient.

Gallery

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  Junges Mädchen im Sessel, 1878
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  A Fair Maiden
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  An Odalisque with a Red Fan
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  Lady in a Pink Dress
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  Reverie
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  A Young Lady holding a Basket of Flowers
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  Costume dell'impero (woodcut)
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  Odaliske
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  Odalisca, 1884 (woodcut)
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  Profumi e fiori, 1889

Sources

• Bénézit, Emmanuel (1924). «Costa (Giovanni)». In Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs & graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays. Vol. 1. Paris: Ernest Gründ. p. 1019.
• Chiusa, Maria Cristina (2003). "Costa family". Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Retrieved 7 October 2022.
• Stolzenburg, Andreas (2021). "Costa, Giovanni Battista (1833)". In Beyer, Andreas; Savoy, Bénédicte; Tegethoff, Wolf (eds.). Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon - Internationale Künstlerdatenbank - Online. K. G. Saur. Retrieved 7 October 2022.
• "Costa, Giovanni". Benezit Dictionary of Artists. 2011. Oxford Art Online. Retrieved 7 October 2022.