Giovanni Costa

Giovanni Costa, also Nino Costa, (* October 15, 1826 in Rome, † January 31, 1903 in Marina di Pisa ) was an Italian landscape painter.

Costa was the fourteenth of sixteen children of a wealthy owner of a spinning mill in the Trastevere district of Rome. He was educated at the Jesuit College of Montefiascone and attended from 1843 in Rome, Collegio Bandinelli, where he took drawing lessons with Luigi Durantini. He was briefly in the studio of the painter Vincenzo Camuccini and then attended the Accademia di San Luca, where Francesco Coghetti, Francesco Podesti and Filippo Agricola were among his teachers. He took in 1848 to the Italian struggle for independence, in part, as well as 1859 and again in 1870, when he first stormed a breach in the Porta Pia in Rome. He is therefore regarded as an Italian national hero with a bust on the Janiculum.

He represented a painting with direct access to nature and was being affected by the Barbizon school.

He lived in Florence, where he both had great influence on the macchiaioli, as well as foreign artists such as Elihu Vedder, Matthew Ridley Corbet and his wife Edith Corbet and his friend with him Frederick Leighton. Later, he lived in Rome. In 1885 he founded the painters' group In Arte Libertas (to which, inter alia, Enrico Coleman and Vincenzo Cabianca included ). In 1904 he had an exhibition in London.

Road in the plane

Valley oaks

Odalisque