COSSA, Francesco del Italian Early Renaissance Painter, ca.1435-1477
Italian painter. Together with Cosimo Tura and Ercole de' Roberti, Cossa was one of the most important painters working in Ferrara and Bologna in the second half of the 15th century. With them he shared an expressive use of line and solidity of form, but he also had a gift for decorative and anecdotal scenes, most evident in the frescoes in the Palazzo Schifanoia, Ferrara. Annunciation and Nativity (Altarpiece of Observation) df 1470
Tempera on panel, 137 x 113 cm, and 26,5 x 114,5 cm
Gemäldegalerie, Dresden
