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