Francesco del Cossa (c. 1430 – c. 1477)

• Was an Italian Renaissance painter of the School of Ferrara.
• The son of a stonemason in Ferrara.
• He travelled outside of Ferrara in his late twenties or early thirties.
• Cossa is best known for his frescoes.
• One of the first records we have of him is in 1456 when he was an assistant to his father, Cristofano del Cossa.
• He executed stained glass windows in Bologna, the best of which is a circular window, in the church of San Giovanni in Monte, representing St. John in Patmos.
• This bears his signature.
• One of his followers was Leonardo Scaletti of Faenza.
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