Cristoforo Agosta

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

Biography

Agosta 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. ↑ Garollo, Gottardo (1907). Ulrico Hoepli, ed. Dizionario biografico universale. Editore Libraio della Real Casa, Milan. p. 29.
  2. ↑ Enciclopedia Treccani, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 1 (1960), entry by Renata Cipriani.
  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). Gaetano Schiepatti; Digitized by Googlebooks, 24 Jan 2007. p. 90.


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