Antonio Costa (painter)
Antonio Costa (1847 - 1915) was an Italian painter active.
Biography
He was born in Florence, brother of Oreste Costa, also a painter,[1] and like him and trained under Antonio Ciseri in the Academy of Fine Arts of Florence.[2] His son Emanuele was a member of the impressionist Machiaioli movement of painters.[3] Antonio Costa is also the name of an 18th-century ecclesiastical scholar born in Piacenza.
References
- ↑ Dizionario biografico universale, By Gottardo Garollo, page 589.
- ↑ Il Valore dei dipinti italiani dell'Ottocento e del primo Novecento, by Giuseppe Luigi Marini (2001).
- ↑ I Macchiaioli e l'800 in Toscana: quotazioni e prezzi dei pittori, by Tommaso Paloscia (1985).
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