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1826 Rome, Italy - 1903 Marina di Pisa, Italy. Known for: Non-conforming figure and rustic scene landscape and genre painting.
Giovanni Costa (15 October 1826 – 31 January 1903), often known as Nino Costa, was an Italian landscape painter and patriotic revolutionary. He was born in Rome on 15 October 1826, the fourteenth of... Read full biography
Giovanni Costa (15 October 1826 – 31 January 1903), often known as Nino Costa, was an Italian landscape painter and patriotic revolutionary. He was born in Rome on 15 October 1826, the fourteenth of the sixteen children of Gioacchino Costa (died 1842) and Maria Chiappi (died 1857). His father was... Read full biography
Giovanni Costa (15 October 1826 – 31 January 1903), often known as Nino Costa, was an Italian landscape painter and patriotic revolutionary. He was born in Rome on 15 October 1826, the fourteenth of the sixteen children of Gioacchino Costa (died 1842) and Maria Chiappi (died 1857). His father was from Santa Margherita Ligure and as a young man had moved to Rome, where he opened a wool-spinning factory and achieved wealth and position. The family lived in a large house in Piazza San Francesco a... Read full biography
Giovanni Costa (15 October 1826 – 31 January 1903), often known as Nino Costa, was an Italian landscape painter and patriotic revolutionary. He was born in Rome on 15 October 1826, the fourteenth of the sixteen children of Gioacchino Costa (died 1842) and Maria Chiappi (died 1857). His father was from Santa Margherita Ligure and as a young man had moved to Rome, where he opened a wool-spinning factory and achieved wealth and position. The family lived in a large house in Piazza San Francesco a Ripa, in Trastevere, close to the factory. When Giovanni was age twelve, hewas introduced to the Neo-Classical painter Baron Vincenzo Camuccini, who encouraged him to work from nature and from what he saw around him. Soon after Giovanni was sent to... Read full biography
Giovanni Costa (15 October 1826 – 31 January 1903), often known as Nino Costa, was an Italian landscape painter and patriotic revolutionary. He was born in Rome on 15 October 1826, the fourteenth of the sixteen children of Gioacchino Costa (died 1842) and Maria Chiappi (died 1857). His father was from Santa Margherita Ligure and as a young man had moved to Rome, where he opened a wool-spinning factory and achieved wealth and position. The family lived in a large house in Piazza San Francesco a Ripa, in Trastevere, close to the factory. When Giovanni was age twelve, hewas introduced to the Neo-Classical painter Baron Vincenzo Camuccini, who encouraged him to work from nature and from what he saw around him. Soon after Giovanni was sent to the Jesuit college at Montefiascone, where he remained for five years. He returned to Rome in 1843, the year after the death of... Read full biography
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Art Media
Art Subject
- •Beach Scenes, Bathers, Swimming Genre
- •Landscape with Cattle, Sheep or Other Farm Animals
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
Ethnicity of Artist
- •Italian