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.

St Vincent Ferrer (Griffoni Polyptych)
1473
National Gallery, London

St Florian (Griffoni Polyptych)
1473
National Gallery of Art, Washington

St Lucy (Griffoni Polyptych)
1473
National Gallery of Art, Washington

Annunciation and Nativity (Altarpiece of Observation)
1470
Gemaldegalerie, Dresden

Annunciation and Nativity (detail)
1470
Gemaldegalerie, Dresden

 

St Peter and St John the Baptist (Griffoni Polyptych)
1473
Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan

Allegory of March: Triumph of Minerva
1476-84
Fresco, 500 x 320 cm
Palazzo Schifanoia, Ferrara

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

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

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

Allegory of March: Triumph of Minerva (detail)
1476-84
Fresco
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

Allegory of April: Triumph of Venus (detail)
1476-84
Fresco, 206 x 170 cm
Palazzo Schifanoia, Ferrara

Allegory of April: Triumph of Venus (detail )
1476-84
Fresco, 103 x 84 cm
Palazzo Schifanoia, Ferrara

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

 

Allegory of April: Triumph of Venus (detail)
1476-84
Fresco, 103 x 135 cm
Palazzo Schifanoia, Ferrara

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

Allegory of April (detail)
1476-84
Fresco
Palazzo Schifanoia, Ferrara

 

Allegory of May: Triumph of Apollo (detail)
1476-84
Fresco, 216 x 320 cm
Palazzo Schifanoia, Ferrara

Allegory of May: Triumph of Apollo (detail)
1476-84
Fresco
Palazzo Schifanoia, Ferrara

The Crucifixion (Griffoni Polyptych)
1473
National Gallery of Art, Washington

Madonna with the Child and Saints
1474
Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna