Giovanni II Bentivoglio 1443–1508, Lord of Bologna 1463–1506

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...

Lorenzo Costa trained in the Ferrarese workshop of Ercole de’Roberti. In the 1480s he moved to Bologna where he worked for Giovanni Il Bentivoglio. The first known work by the arti...

One of the earliest known works by this artist is The Virgin and Child with Angels in the Musée du Louvre, which was formerly in the collection of Lord Wimborne. Dated around 1455,...

Dürer was in Venice between the end of the summer of 1505 and the autumn of 1506, at which point he went to Bologna. He had already been in Venice as a young man in 1494 but the se...