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

Mannerist Mannerism, which may also be known as Late Renaissance, is a style in European art that emerged in the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520, spreading by about 1530 and lasting until about the end of the 16th century in Italy, ...

style.

Biography

Agosta was born in

Casalmaggiore Casalmaggiore ( Casalasco-Viadanese: ) is a ''comune'' in the province of Cremona, Lombardy, Italy, located across the Po River. It was the birthplace of Italian composers Ignazio Donati and Andrea Zani. It became worldwide famous thanks to its ...

. He was a pupil of

Giovanni Battista Trotti Giovanni Battista Trotti (1555 – 11 June 1612) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance period, active mainly in Piacenza, Parma, and his native city of Cremona. In Cremona, he was initially a pupil of Bernardino Campi, whose niece h ...

and active in

Cremona Cremona (, also ; ; lmo, label= Cremunés, Cremùna; egl, Carmona) is a city and ''comune'' in northern Italy, situated in Lombardy, on the left bank of the Po river in the middle of the ''Pianura Padana'' ( Po Valley). It is the capital of th ...

. The 18th-century art historian

Giovanni Battista Zaist Giovanni Battista Zaist (Cremona, June 14, 1700 – September 29, 1757) was an Italian painter and art historian. Biography He was a pupil of Giuseppe Natali Giuseppe Natali (1652–1722) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active m ...

assigned to him the ''Marriage of Santa Caterina'', once in the church of San Domenico in Cremona (now in the Pinacoteca of Cremona).

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Year of birth missing Year of death missing 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 17th-century Italian painters Painters from Cremona Italian Mannerist painters {{Italy-painter-16thC-stub