about the high altar of the bishop's palace, Ferrara. In later years removed to Bologna, where he is justly celebrated for his Madonna with Saints (1474), Bologna Gallery, and his Madonna del Barracano (1472). Cossa was of the same school as Tura, but he was a better draughtsman and more correct in feeling. His rich detail is worked out in a grayish tone with great charm. His somewhat morose faces, too, are less grotesque than those of Tura. He was not free from northern peculiarities, and something in his air or technical treatment recalls Roger van der Weyden.—C. & C., N. Italy, i. 522; Burckhardt, 579; Ch. Blanc, École ferraraise; Lermolieff, 124, 128, 130, 243.
COSSIAU, JAN JOST D., born at Breda
in 1654 or 1664-66, died in 1732 or 1734.
Dutch school; landscape painter; imitated
Gaspard Poussin, lived for some time in
Paris, became court painter at Mentz and
Bamberg, and was the first organizer of the
picture galleries at Pommersfelden, Gaibach,
and Wiesenthaid. Works: Italian
Landscape with Castle (1704), do. with
Pyramid (1704), Brunswick Museum;
Egyptian Landscape, Cassel Gallery;
large Landscape (1716), Old Pinakothek,
Munich; others in Versailles and Düsseldorf
Galleries.—Kramm, i. 275.
COSSIERS (Cotsiers, Causiers), JAN,
born in Antwerp, July 15, 1600, died there,
buried July 7, 1671. Flemish school; history,
genre, and portrait painter, pupil of
his father, Anton, and of Cornelis de Vos;
entered guild in 1628, dean in 1639-1641.
Painted much for the King of Spain, the
Cardinal Infant Ferdinand, Archduke Leopold
William, and many other princes.
Works: Adoration of Shepherds (2), Gentleman
lighting his Pipe, Portrait of a Surgeon,
Flagellation, Antwerp Museum; Deluge,
Brussels Museum; Jupiter and Lycaon,
Prometheus, Narcissus, Madrid Museum;
Christ at Simon's, Temptation of St. Anthony,
Holy Family, Crucifixion, Pietà,
Eglise du Béguinage, Mechlin.—Biog. nat.
de Belgique, iv. 412; Cat. du Musée d'Anvers
(1874), 92; Michiels, ix. 78; Rooses
(Reber), 372.
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COSTA, GIOVANNI, born in Italy; contemporary. Landscape and portrait painter. Resides at Rome. Exhibits chiefly at Grosvenor Gallery, London. Works: On the Sands near Ardea—Rome (1877); Campagna, Capri, On the Shore (1877); Dawn near Bocca d'Arno (1879); Gulf of Spezzia from Lerici (1880); Naughty Girl—Capri, Approach to Venetian Lagoon (1881); Sunrise—Porto d'Anzio, Sunrise on Carrara Hills (1882); Morning on Hills of Branzi—Lerici, Kensington Palace (1883.)
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COSTA, LORENZO, born in Ferrara in
1460, died in
Mantua, March 5,
1535. Bolognese
school; after several
years' work
in Ferrara he
went to Florence,
according to Vasari,
and studied
the works of
Lippi and Benozzo
Gozzoli. About 1480-83, he was employed
by the Bentivoglio family, Bologna,
in the decoration of their palace (destroyed
in 1507), and probably alternated between
that city and Ferrara until the expulsion of
the Bentivoglio family (1509), when he entered
the service of the Gonzagas of Mantua,
where he painted during the rest of his
days. In Bologna he was a co-worker of
Francia's, and was probably of much use to
the latter between 1480 and 1490; but between
1490 and 1500 Francia rivalled and
excelled his friend, and Costa followed where
he had before been a leader. Among his
better Bolognese examples are: Madonna
(1488), Cappella Bentivoglio in S. Jacopo
