Lorenzo Costa Works Online
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Original works by Lorenzo Costa available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 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, pen and ink drawing, ca.1500
Louvre Museum Database, Paris
3 paintings
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French) 
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 
Paintings collection online
National Gallery, London, UK
Lorenzo Costa at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Great scans of Rijksmuseum paintings, from the 'Memory of the Netherlands' project
Rijksmuseum Research Database, Amsterdam (in Dutch)
The Royal Collection, London, UK
(Zoomable - look for the magnifying glass and the text "Magnify image")
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
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Virgin and Child
Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna (in Italian)
5 works online
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German)
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
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- images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image
Virtual Uffizi
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 NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive NEW!
(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 in the Art Renewal Center
Lorenzo Costa at CGFA 
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)
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California State University WorldImages Database
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site
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Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Lorenzo Costa 
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Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)
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
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes)
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