Oreste Costa
Oreste Costa (1851–1901) was an Italian painter, active mainly painting genre scenes, landscapes, and still lifes. • Illustration — Young John the Baptist
Oreste Costa
Oreste Costa (1851-1901) · Public domain
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- 1851 · Florence.
- Died
- 1901 · Florence.
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- Kingdom of Italy
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- painter
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He was born in Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany, and trained under Antonio Ciseri. Among his works was a Gli ultimi Sforzi. His brother Antonio was also a painter. He exhibited frequently in England. One of his paintings, a genre scene with tippling elderly peasants is found at the Hillwood museum.
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Oreste Costa (1851 – 1901) was a painter. Both events are recorded by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
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- 1.Gubernatis, Angelo De. Piccolo dizionario dei contemporanei italiani. Forzani e c. 270. 1895.
- 2.Il Valore dei dipinti italiani dell'Ottocento e del primo del Novecento, by Giuseppe Luigi Marini (2001), Page 254.
- 3.Collection of Hillwood museum. hillwoodmuseum.org.
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