Francesco Costa (1672-1740) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period, active mainly in his Native Genoa. Year 1740 ( MDCCXL) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest Baroque art redirects here Please disambiguate such links to Baroque painting, Baroque sculpture, etc Genoa ( Genova, ˈdʒɛːnova in Italian; Zena in Genoese and Ligurian; Genua in Latin and archaically in English He was the pupil of the painter Gregorio de Ferrari in Genoa, and later of Antonio Maria Haffner. Gregorio de Ferrari (c 1647 - 1726 was an Italian Baroque painter of the Genoese school He often painted with Giovanni Battista Revello (il Mustacchi). Giovanni Battista Revello (1672-1732 also called il Mustacchi, was an Italian painter of the Baroque period He painted in the Palazzo Grilli in Pegli. Genoa ( Genova, ˈdʒɛːnova in Italian; Zena in Genoese and Ligurian; Genua in Latin and archaically in English He chiefly painted ornaments and quadratura. Illusionistic ceiling painting, which includes the techniques of perspective di sotto in sù and quadratura, is the tradition in Renaissance, He painted a Landscape with Rape of Europa is in the Uffizi. The Uffizi Gallery (Galleria degli Uffizi one of the oldest and most famous Art Museums in the world is housed in the Palazzo degli Uffizi, a
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- Bryan, Michael (1886). in Robert Edmund Graves: Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume I: A-K). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons, page 315.
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