Francesco del Cossa

1436–1477 · Italy

Francesco del Cossa (c. 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. Wikipedia

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Works

“Allegory of May”, 1468 — Palazzo Schifanoia
“Madonna enthroned with child and Saints Petronius and John the Evangelist”, 1474 — Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna
“Allegory of April: Triumph of Venus”, 1468 — Palazzo Schifanoia
“Allegory of March – Triumph of Minerva and sign of Aries”, 1468 — Palazzo Schifanoia
“Nativity”, 1471 — Dresden State Art Collections
“Saint Florian”, 1472 — Samuel H. Kress Collection
“The Annunciation”, 1471 — Dresden State Art Collections
“Saint Vincent Ferrer”, 1472 — National Gallery
“Saint Lucy”, 1472 — Samuel H. Kress Collection
“The Crucifixion”, 1473 — Samuel H. Kress Collection
“Angel of annunciation kneeling in landscape”, 1455–1465 — Instituut Collectie Nederland
“St John the Baptist”, 1472 — Pinacoteca di Brera
“Virgin and Child with an Angel”, 1464 — Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya
“Saint Peter”, 1472 — Pinacoteca di Brera
“Portrait of a Man with a Ring”, 1475 — Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
“Der Herbst (die Muse Polyhymnia)”, 1460
“The Meeting of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba; Cherub Holding Cornucopias of Cherries (recto and verso)” — Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
“The Justice of Trajan and the widow” — Bonnefanten Museum
“Saint Catherine and Saint Clare”, 1470–1472 — Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya