Giovanni Battista Costa (painter, born 1833)

Giovanni Battista Costa (1833–1893), also called Giovanni Costa, was an Italian genre painter.

Life
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.