Oreste Costa
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Oreste Costa (1851–1901) was an Italian painter, active mainly painting genre scenes, landscapes, and still lifes.
Biography
He was born in Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany, and trained under Antonio Ciseri. Among his works was a Gli ultimi Sforzi.[1] His brother Antonio was also a painter. He exhibited frequently in England.[2] One of his paintings, a genre scene with tippling elderly peasants is found at the Hillwood museum.[3]
References
- ^ Gubernatis, Angelo De (1895). Piccolo dizionario dei contemporanei italiani (in Italian). Forzani e c. p. 270.
- ^ Il Valore dei dipinti italiani dell'Ottocento e del primo del Novecento, by Giuseppe Luigi Marini (2001), Page 254.
- ^ "Collection of Hillwood museum". hillwoodmuseum.org. Retrieved 2023-12-14.
Categories:
- CS1 Italian-language sources (it)
- Articles with short description
- Short description is different from Wikidata
- Articles with VIAF identifiers
- Articles with GND identifiers
- Articles with Musée d'Orsay identifiers
- Articles with RKDartists identifiers
- Articles with ULAN identifiers
- Articles with DTBIO identifiers
- 1851 births
- 1901 deaths
- 19th-century Italian painters
- Italian male painters
- 20th-century Italian painters
- Painters from Florence
- Italian costume genre painters
- Italian still life painters
- 19th-century Italian male artists
- 20th-century Italian male artists
- Artists from the Grand Duchy of Tuscany
- All stub articles
- Italian painter, 19th-century birth stubs