LORENZO

COSTA (146o-r535)  , Italian painter, was born at Ferrara, but went in early life to Bologna and ranks with the Bolognese school . In 1438 he painted his famous " Madonna and Child with the Bentivoglio family," and other frescoes, on the walls of the Bentivoglio chapel in San Giacomo Maggiore, and he followed this with many other works . He was a great friend of Francia, who was much influenced by him . In 1509 he went to Mantua, where his patron was the Marquis Francesco Gonzaga, and he eventually died there . His " Madonna and Child en-throned " is in the National Gallery, London, but his chief works are at Bologna . His sons, Ippolito (15o6–1561) and Girolamo, were also painters, and so was Girolamo's son Lorenzo the younger (1537–1583) .