Liberale Cozza Explained

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.

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]

Notes and References

  1. http://www.istitutomatteucci.it/it/dizionario-degli-artisti/cozza-liberale Istituto Matteucci
  2. Book: Garollo, Gottardo . 1907. Dizionario biografico universale . Ulrico Hoepli. 599 . Editore Libraio della Real Casa, Milan.
  3. https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_feDNuRPBd_wC Storia della Pittura Veneziana
  4. https://books.google.com/books?id=RAhUAAAAcAAJ Il Fiore di Venezia ossia i Quadri, i Monumenti, le Vedute ed i costumi
  5. Istituto Matteucci.
  6. Zanotto, page 399.
  7. https://books.google.com/books?id=O1dfAAAAcAAJ Annali Delle Province Venete Dall'Anno 1801 Al 1840