Enrico Paulucci, OMAGGIO A LIONELLO VENTURI (1991)

This portrait on panel was published in 1915 in a text by Adolfo Venturi in his famous Storia dell’arte Italiana. Other authors including Berenson subsequently included it in their...

Born in Ferrara, Lorenzo Costa trained with the Ferrarese painter Ercole de’Roberti. In the early 1480s he is documented in Bologna at the court of Giovanni II Bentivoglio (Bologna...

Together with Cosmè Tura and Ercole de’Roberti (also represented in this Collection), Francesco del Cossa was the most important artist in Ferrara and Bologna in the second half of...