Liberale Cozza

Liberale Cozza (20 July 1768 – 26 May 1821) was an Italian painter, active mainly in his native Venice, but also in Brescia in a Neoclassical style.

St Phillip Neri invites the children to venerate the Madonna (1811) Church of San Giacomo, Brescia.

Biography

He learned early from Giovanni Tosolini, but was mainly self-trained.[1] He painted landscapes and historic, mythologic, and religious subjects.

He was mainly active in the Veneto.[2] One of his pupils was a young Lodovico Lipparini.[3] Cozza painted a St Urban converts the Pagans (1798), now in the Museo Diocesano of Padua. He painted a St Ignatius of Loyola (Stanislao Kotska?) and Louis Gonzaga for the church of San Fantino, Venice,[4] a St Louis Gonzaga for San Tomasso, Venice,[5] and in Villa a Caldaro in Brescia.[6] He was commissioned along with Antonio Canova, Francesco Hayez, Giovanni De Min, Lattanzio Querena, and others to create artworks in honor of the marriage of the Francis I Emperor of Austria with Caroline Augusta; Cozza painted a Banquet of Asaheurus.[7]

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References
  1. Istituto Matteucci, short biography.
  2. Garollo, Gottardo (1907). Ulrico Hoepli (ed.). Dizionario biografico universale. Editore Libraio della Real Casa, Milan. p. 599.
  3. Storia della Pittura Veneziana, by Francesco Zanotto, page 414.
  4. Il Fiore di Venezia ossia i Quadri, i Monumenti, le Vedute ed i costumi, Volume 2, by Ermolao Paoletti, page 151.
  5. Istituto Matteucci.
  6. Zanotto, page 399.
  7. Annali Delle Province Venete Dall'Anno 1801 Al 1840, by Fabio Mutinelli, page 249.



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