Francesco Costa (1672–1740) was an Italian painter of the late-

Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

period, active mainly in his Native Genoa. He was the pupil of the painter Gregorio de Ferrari in Genoa, and later of

Antonio Maria Haffner Antonio Maria Haffner (1654–1732) was an Italian painter of quadratura and priest during the Baroque period, active mainly in Bologna. Biography Enrico was born to a Swiss father, who was a mercenary Swiss guard for the Papacy, stationed in Bo ...

. He often painted with

Giovanni Battista Revello Giovanni Battista Revello (1672–1732), also called ''il Mustacchi'', was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He painted both quadratura and still-life. He was born in Recco near Genoa and studied under Enrico Haffner, and formed a close f ...

(il Mustacchi). He painted in the Palazzo Grilli in Pegli, Genoa. He chiefly painted ornaments and

quadratura Illusionistic ceiling painting, which includes the techniques of perspective ''di sotto in sù'' and ''quadratura'', is the tradition in Renaissance, Baroque and Rococo art in which ''trompe-l'œil'', perspective tools such as foreshortening, an ...

. He painted ''Landscape with Rape of Europa'' which currently sits in the Uffizi museum.

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* 1672 births 1740 deaths Painters from Genoa 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 18th-century Italian painters Italian Baroque painters Quadratura painters 18th-century Italian male artists Artists from the Republic of Genoa {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub