Giovanni Battista Costa (1833–1893), also called Giovanni Costa, was an Italian genre painter.
[1] Giovanni Battista Costa was born in Livorno on 12 May 1833.
He was a student at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze and worked afterwards in Florence, where he died on 6 December 1893.
He painted genre scenes and historical costume pictures, especially scenes from ancient Rome and the Orient.
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