Francesco Cozza (painter)
Francesco Cozza | |
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Born | 1605 Stilo, Calabria, Italy |
Died | 1682 (aged 76–77) |
Occupation | artist |
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Francesco Cozza (1605 – 13 January 1682) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.
Life[]
Cozza was born in Stilo in Calabria and died in Rome. As a young man, he went to Rome where he was apprenticed to Domenichino, with whom he traveled to Naples in 1634.[1]
He is best known for his expansive panegyric ceiling fresco, Apotheosis of Pamphili House (1667-1673) in the library of Palazzo Pamphili in Piazza Navona in Rome. During 1658 to 1659, he frescoed the Stanza del Fuoco in Palazzo Pamphili in Valmontone, working alongside Pier Francesco Mola, Gaspar Dughet, Mattia Preti, (il Cortonese), and Guglielmo Cortese.[2] He also collaborated with Carlo Maratta and Domenico Maria Canuti in the fresco decorations of the Palazzo Altieri. His landscape paintings recall the Carracci style of paesi con figure piccole (landscapes with small figures). He painted a Madonna del Riscatto in church of Santa Francesca Romana. He was received into the Accademia di San Luca at Rome in 1650.
He etched several plates in the style of Pietro del Po, including a St. Peter (1630); a Christ sleeping and adored by Angels and a St Mary Magdalene (1650).
Gallery[]
Hagar in the Wilderness
Fuga in Egitto, Convent of Sant'Angelo in Pescheria, Rome
Madonna and Child
La predica del Battista, Galleria Nazionale di Arte antica, Palazzo Barberini, Rome
Portrait of Tommaso Campanella, Collezione Camillo Caetani, Sermoneta
References[]
- ^ Le vie degli artisti : residenze e botteghe nella Roma barocca dai registri di Sant'Andrea delle Fratte, 1650-1699, by Laura Bartoni, Roma : Edizioni Nuova cultura, (2012), page 425.
- ^ Laura Bartoni, page 424.
Sources[]
- Bryan, Michael (1886). Robert Edmund Graves (ed.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume I: A-K). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons. p. 325.CS1 maint: location (link)
- 1605 births
- 1682 deaths
- People from the Province of Reggio Calabria
- 17th-century Italian painters
- Italian male painters
- Italian Baroque painters
- People from the Vallata dello Stilaro
- Italian etchers
- Italian painter, 17th-century birth stubs