Liberale Cozza

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]