Antonio Costa (painter)

Antonio Costa (1847–1915) was an Italian painter.

Biography He was born in Florence, brother of Oreste Costa, also a painter,Dizionario biografico universale, By Gottardo Garollo, page 589. and like him trained under Antonio Ciseri in the Academy of Fine Arts of Florence.Il Valore dei dipinti italiani dell'Ottocento e del primo Novecento, by Giuseppe Luigi Marini (2001). His son Emanuele was a member of the Macchiaioli movement of painters.I Macchiaioli e l'800 in Toscana: quotazioni e prezzi dei pittori, by Tommaso Paloscia (1985). Antonio Costa is also the name of an 18th-century ecclesiastical scholar born in Piacenza.

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