Nicolò Corso (Nicolò di Lombarduccio da Pieve di Vico), documented (1469 - 1503)

• Was an Italian painter.
• Corso was active mainly in Liguria.
• The majority of his known pictures are located in the cloister and refectory of the monastery of the Olivetan Fathers at Quarto, near Genoa.

• He was the son of a certain Lombarduccio, a native of Corsica and was probably born in Liguria around 1446.

• The first documentary evidence on the artists dates to 15 September 1469 when a 'Nicola de Corsus Plebs Vici Corsice q. Lombarducii' enters in Genoa into a partnership with the painter and jewel-case maker Gaspare dell’Acqua from Pavia.

• The two artists collaborated on the decoration of cassone panels.

• He worked for many years at the Olivetan monastery of St Jerome located in Quarto, near Genoa. 

• He worked there for the first time in 1489 and then continuously from 1491 to 1494. 

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