The Early Renaissance


   

 


Francesco del Cossa
 
 
 

 

 Francesco del Cossa
 

(b Ferrara, c. 1435; d Bologna, 1476–7).

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.

 

 


Allegory of March: Triumph of Minerva (detail)

1476-84
Fresco, 103 x 84 cm
Palazzo Schifanoia, Ferrara

 

 

 

 


Allegory of March: Triumph of Minerva
(detail)
1476-84
Fresco
Palazzo Schifanoia, Ferrara

 

 

 
 


Allegory of April: Triumph of Venus

1476-84
Fresco, 500 x 320 cm
Palazzo Schifanoia, Ferrara

 

         

Allegory of April: Triumph of Venus
(detail)
1476-84
Fresco, 500 x 320 cm
Palazzo Schifanoia, Ferrara