Get a Costa Certificate of Authenticity for your painting (COA) for your Costa drawing.

For all your Costa artworks you need a Certificate of Authenticity (COA) in order to sell, to insure or to donate for a tax deduction.

Getting a Costa Certificate of Authenticity (COA) is easy. Just send us photos and dimensions and tell us what you know about the origin or history of your Costa painting or drawing.

If you want to sell your Costa painting or drawing use our selling services. We offer Costa selling help, selling advice, private treaty sales and full brokerage.

We have been authenticating Costa and issuing certificates of authenticity since 2002. We are recognized Costa experts and Costa certified appraisers. We issue COAs and appraisals for all Costa artworks.

Our Costa paintings and drawings authentications are accepted and respected worldwide.

Each COA is backed by in-depth research and analysis authentication reports.

The Costa certificates of authenticity we issue are based on solid, reliable and fully referenced art investigations, authentication research, analytical work and forensic studies.

We are available to examine your Costa painting or drawing anywhere in the world.

You will generally receive your certificates of authenticity and authentication report within two weeks. Some complicated cases with difficult to research Costa paintings or drawings take longer.

Our clients include Costa collectors, investors, tax authorities, insurance adjusters, appraisers, valuers, auctioneers, Federal agencies and many law firms.

We perform Lorenzo Costa art authentication, appraisal, certificates of authenticity (COA), analysis, research, scientific tests, full art authentications. We will help you sell your Lorenzo Costa or we will sell it for you.

Lorenzo Costa was an Italian painter of the Renaissance. He was born at Ferrara, but moved to Bologna by his early twenties, and would be more influential to the Bolognese school of painting. However, many artists worked in both nearby cities, and thus others consider him a product of the School of Ferrara. There are claims that he trained with Cosimo Tura.

In 1438 he painted his famous Madonna and Child with the Bentivoglio family, and other frescoes, on the walls of the Bentivoglio chapel in San Giacomo Maggiore, and he followed this with many other works. He was a great friend of Francesco Francia, who was much influenced by him. In 1509 he went to Mantua, where his patron was the Marquis Francesco Gonzaga, and he eventually died there. His Madonna and Child enthroned is in the National Gallery, London, but his chief works are at Bologna. His sons, Ippolito (1506-1561) and Girolamo, were also painters, and so was Girolamo’s son, Lorenzo the younger (1537-1583). Many contemporaries who worked with or below him include Cosimo Tura, Dosso Dossi and Ludovico Mazzolino.

Still wondering about an Italian painting in your family collection? Contact us…it could be by Lorenzo Costa.