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GIOVANNI COSTA (1826–1903)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 219 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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COSTA (1826–1903)  , See also:Italian painter, was See also:born in See also:Rome . He fought under See also:Garibaldi in 1848, and served as a volunteer in the See also:war of 1859; and his See also:enthusiasm for Italian unity was actively shown again in 1870, when he was the first to See also:mount the See also:breach in the See also:assault of Rome near the Porta Pia . He had settled meanwhile at See also:Florence, where his fight for the See also:independence of See also:art from worn-out traditions was no less strenuous, and he became known as a landscape-painter of remarkable originality, and of See also:great See also:influence in the return to See also:minute observation of nature . He had many See also:English See also:friends and followers, notably See also:Matthew See also:Ridley See also:Corbet (1850-1902), and See also:Lord See also:Carlisle, and was closely associated with See also:Corot and the See also:Barbizon school . In later years he lived and worked mainly in Rome, where his studio was an important centre . An See also:exhibition of his pictures was held in See also:London in 1904, and he is represented in the See also:Tate See also:Gallery . He died at Rome in 1903 . See also Madame Agresti's Giovanni See also:Costa (1904) .

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