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.
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]