Giovanni Battista Costa (1833–1893), also called Giovanni Costa, was an Italian genre painter.^[1]

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.^[2]

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

References

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.