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Cristoforo Agosta

Cristoforo Agosta

Italian painter

Cristoforo Agosta, Agosti, or Augusta (16-17th century) was an Italian painter of the Mannerist style.

Mystical Marriage of Saint Catherine of Siena by Cristoforo Agosta, 1597

Biography

Agosta was born in Casalmaggiore. He was a pupil of Giovanni Battista Trotti and active in Cremona.[1] The 18th-century art historian Giovanni Battista Zaist assigned to him the Marriage of Santa Caterina, once in the church of San Domenico in Cremona (now in the Pinacoteca of Cremona).[2][3]

References

  1. [1]
    Garollo, Gottardo (1907). Ulrico Hoepli (ed.). Dizionario biografico universale. Editore Libraio della Real Casa, Milan. p. 29.
  2. [2]
    Enciclopedia Treccani, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 1 (1960), entry by Renata Cipriani.
  3. [3]
    Ticozzi, Stefano (1830). Dizionario degli architetti, scultori, pittori, intagliatori in rame ed in pietra, coniatori di medaglie, musaicisti, niellatori, intarsiatori d'ogni etá e d'ogni nazione (Volume 1). Milan: Gaetano Schiepatti. p. 90.


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