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(2) Ippolito Costa
(b Bologna or Mantua, 1506; d Mantua, 8 Nov 1561). Son of (1) Lorenzo Costa. From 1529 to 1539 he is documented among the artists of the Gonzaga court in Mantua. The style of his earliest known work, the Virgin and Child with Three Saints (1531; Milan, Mus. Poldi Pezzoli), painted for a member of the Gonzaga family, recalls works by his father and Girolamo da Carpi, who may have been his teachers. A similar approach is evident in the Virgin and Child Enthroned with SS Benedict and John the Evangelist (Gonzaga, S Benedetto), while his mature works are clearly influenced by Giulio Romano and Tuscan-Roman Mannerism. These include St Agatha (1552; Mantua Cathedral) and the Deposition (Mantua, S Gervasio), which are comparable to contemporary examples by his pupil Bernardino Campi. His documented portrait of Bishop Ippolito Capilupi and Margherita Paleologa, wife of Federico II Gonzaga, are untraced.
Part of the Costa family
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