Francesco del Cossa

1436–1477 · Early Renaissance

Francesco del Cossa was an Italian Renaissance painter of the School of Ferrara, who after 1470 worked in Bologna. Cossa is best known for his frescoes, especially his collaboration with Cosimo Tura on a cycle of the months in the Palazzo Schifanoia of the Este family, rulers of Ferrara. Otherwise, his paintings are mostly of religious subjects, with some portraits and drawings attributed to him. He also designed stained glass.

15 paintings

• Virgin and Child with an Angel (1460)
• De annunciatie (1487)
• The Annunciation (1470)
• Allegory of April: Triumph of Venus (1468)
• Madonna enthroned with child and Saints Petronius and John the Evangelist (1474)
• Saint Florian (1472)
• St John the Baptist (1470)
• Saint Peter (1472)
• Saint Lucy (1472)
• The Meeting of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba; Cherub Holding Cornucopias of Cherries (recto and verso)
• Saint Vincent Ferrer (1472)
• Saint Florian (c. 1473/1474)
• Saint Lucy (c. 1473/1474)
• The Crucifixion (c. 1473/1474)
• Portrait of a Man with a Ring (1475)