Francesco del cossa biography of abraham lincoln

Italian painter of Renaissance era

Francesco del Cossa (c.

Francesco del cossa biography of abraham lincoln

1430 – c. 1477) was an Italian Renaissance painter of the School of Ferrara, who after 1470 worked in Bologna. Cossa is best known for his frescoes, especially his collaboration with Cosimo Tura on a cycle of the months in the Palazzo Schifanoia of the Este family, rulers of Ferrara.

Otherwise, his paintings are mostly of religious subjects, with some portraits and drawings attributed to him.

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He also designed stained glass.

Biography

Francesco was the son of a stonemason in Ferrara, little is known about his early works, although it is known that he travelled outside of Ferrara in his late twenties or early thirties.

One of the first records we have of him is in 1456 when he was an assistant to his father, Cristofano del Cossa, at that time employed in painting the carvings and statues on the high altar in the chapel of the bishop's palace at Ferrara.

One of his followers was Leonardo Scalett