Lorenzo Costa

1460-1535

By Emilio Negro and Nicosetta Roio 

  • 192 pages
  • 268 colour and b/w images 
  • Size 26X30 cm
  • Hardcover with dust jacket

Original price was: €103.00.Current price is: €80.00.

ISBN: 88-7792-080-7 Category:

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[…] It must be acknowledged that when that mastermind (Ercole Roberti) died, there was not a single painter in Ferrara who could keep the level of the city as an artistic capital. The art capital was instead Bologna, where the best of Ercole’s followers, Lorenzo Costa, had moved to in 1483.
When, in 1488, Giovanni II Bentivoglio decided to have the family chapel decorated… [R. Longhi, Officina Ferrarese (1934), in Roberto Longhi, Da Cimabue a Morandi (1973), p. 569]