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Lorenzo Costa: Mary Reading
Source: Wikimedia Commons (see "image archives" below)
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Lorenzo Costa Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
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Original works by Lorenzo Costa available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Portrait of a Lady, 1500-06
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
A Thebaid: Monks and Hermits in a Landscape, 1505
Kress Foundation Collection
(Look for the "Image" links for super high resolution scans)
8 paintings online in high resolution
Lorenzo Costa at the Louvre Museum, Paris
St. Sebastian standing, in three quarters view, turning to the left, ca.1500
Louvre Museum Database, Paris
3 paintings
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French) 
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Paintings collection online
National Gallery, London, UK
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam NEW!
The Royal Collection, London, UK
Portrait of a lady with a lapdog, ca.1500-05
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
Portrait of a Lady, ca.1490
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota 
Portrait of a Cardinal in his Study, ca.1519
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, France (in French)
La Nativité
Museum Collection Database for the Region of Haute-Normandie, France
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna (in Italian)
5 works online
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German)
The Walters Art Museum, Maryland NEW!
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
(Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)
Virtual Uffizi
Saint Sebastian
Portrait of Giovanni Bentivoglio
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Lorenzo Costa at The Art Renewal Center
Lorenzo Costa in the Web Gallery of Art
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Aiwaz Panopticon
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
(a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
California State University WorldImages Database
Lorenzo Costa at CGFA 
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
Memory of the Netherlands Project
Great scans; use your mouse wheel to zoom in on the detail images
RKD Netherlands Imagebase NEW!
Eclectic database of images that range from old black-and-white photos to superb, zoomable reproductions
State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site
Additional Image Search Tools:
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Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Lorenzo Costa 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
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