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‘ Verie sweete and artificiall ’ : Lorenzo Costa and the earliest viols. John Bryan University of Huddersfield, UK & Rose Consort of Viols. Lorenzo Costa Madonna and Child enthroned with SS. Augustine, Posidonius, John and Francis Cappella di S. Agostino, San Giovanni in Monte, Bologna.
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‘Verie sweete and artificiall’: Lorenzo Costa and the earliest viols John Bryan University of Huddersfield, UK & Rose Consort of Viols
Lorenzo Costa Madonna and Child enthroned withSS. Augustine, Posidonius, John and Francis Cappella di S. Agostino, San Giovanni in Monte, Bologna
Lorenzo Costa (c. 1460–1535) • Trained in Ferrara • 1480s & 1490s commissions for Bentivoglio family in Bologna • 1492–7 runs school of painting in Ferrara with Francia • 1497 Madonna and Child for Ghedini chapel, Bologna • 1504 Coronation of a Lady for Isabella d’Este • 1506 court painter at Mantua • 1509 citizen of Mantua
Lorenzo Costa The Concert National Gallery, London
Isabella d’Este • 1474 born in Ferrara • 1490 marriesFrancesco Gonzagaof Mantua • 1495 orders first viole • 1499 is playing viola • 1504 commissions Costa • 1519 Francesco dies • 1539 Isabella dies
Raphael Baldassare Castiglione (1478–1529) Louvre, Paris