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Costa, Lorenzo

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Costa, Lorenzo (1460-1535)

Italian painter, active in Bologna. An early work is his Madonna Enthroned with the Bentivoglio Family (1487) in the Bentivoglio Chapel of S Giacomo Maggiore, Bologna. He succeeded Andrea Mantegna as court painter to the Gonzagas in Mantua in 1509.

Born in Ferrara, he probably studied under Cosimo Tura and Francesco Cossa. In Bologna his work underwent the softening influences of the Umbrian School transmitted by Francesco Francia, with whom he worked in 1506. The two allegories in the Louvre, Paris, the Gateway of Comus and the Garden of Harmony, were painted for the studiolo of Isabella d'Este.

His two sons Ippolito and Girolamo were also painters.
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