Giovanni Costa (painter)
Giovanni Costa , also Nino Costa , (born October 15, 1826 in Rome , † January 31, 1903 in Marina di Pisa ) was an Italian landscape painter .
Costa was the fourteenth of sixteen children of a wealthy spinning mill owner in the Trastevere district of Rome. He was educated at the Jesuit college of Montefiascone and from 1843 attended the Collegio Bandinelli in Rome, where he took drawing lessons from Luigi Durantini . He was briefly in the studio of the painter Vincenzo Camuccini and then attended the Accademia di San Luca, where Francesco Coghetti , Francesco Podesti and Filippo Agricola were among his teachers. He took part in the Italian struggles for independence in 1848, as well as in 1859 and again in 1870, when he was the first to storm a breach at the Porta Pia in Rome. He is therefore considered an Italian hero of freedom with a bust on the Janiculum .
He represented a painting with direct access to nature and was influenced by the Barbizon school .
He lived in Florence , where he had a great influence both on the Macchiaioli and on foreign painters such as Elihu Vedder , Matthew Ridley Corbet and his wife Edith Corbet and his friend Frederick Leighton . He later lived in Rome. In 1885 he founded the group of painters In Arte Libertas (which included Enrico Coleman and Vincenzo Cabianca ). In 1904 he had an exhibition in London.
Women unloading wood in Anzio
Road in the plane
Valley with oaks
Odalisque
literature
- Olivia Rossetti Agresti Giovanni Costa , London: Grant Richards 1904
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Costa, Giovanni |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Costa, Nino |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 15, 1826 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rome |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 31, 1903 |
| Place of death | Marina di Pisa |