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] painting 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 Demin, 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]

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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