Francesco Cozza (1605 – 13 January 1682) was an Italian painter of the
Baroque
The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including ...
period.
Life
Cozza was born in
Stilo
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in
Calabria
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and died in
Rome
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. As a young man, he went to Rome where he was apprenticed to
Domenichino
Domenico Zampieri (, ; October 21, 1581 – April 6, 1641), known by the diminutive Domenichino (, ) after his shortness, was an Italian Baroque painter of the Bolognese School of painters.
Life
Domenichino was born in Bologna, son of a shoem ...
, with whom he traveled to
Naples
Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adm ...
in 1634.
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,
Giovanni Battista Tassi (''il Cortonese''), and
Guglielmo Cortese.
[Laura Bartoni, page 424.] He also collaborated with
Carlo Maratta
Carlo Maratta or Maratti (13 May 162515 December 1713) was an Italian painter, active mostly in Rome, and known principally for his classicizing paintings executed in a Late Baroque Classical manner. Although he is part of the classical tradition ...
and
Domenico Maria Canuti
Domenico Maria Canuti (5 April 1625– 6 April 1684) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Bologna and Rome. He was a major painter of fresco decorations. His ceiling decorations showed a mix of Bolognese and Roman influ ...
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
The Accademia di San Luca (the "Academy of Saint Luke") is an Italian academy of artists in Rome. The establishment of the Accademia de i Pittori e Scultori di Roma was approved by papal brief in 1577, and in 1593 Federico Zuccari became its fir ...
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
File:Francesco Cozza 001.jpg, Hagar
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in the Wilderness
Cozza Fuga in Egitto.jpg, ''Fuga in Egitto'', Convent of Sant'Angelo in Pescheria, Rome
Cozza Madonna del Riscatto.jpg,
File:Francesco Cozza - Madonna and Child - Google Art Project.jpg, ''Madonna and Child''
Cozza Predica del Battista.jpg, ''La predica del Battista'', Galleria Nazionale di Arte antica, Palazzo Barberini, Rome
Cozza Tommaso Campanella.jpg, ''Portrait of Tommaso Campanella'', Collezione Camillo Caetani, Sermoneta
References
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1605 births
1682 deaths
17th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
Italian Baroque painters
People from Stilo
Italian etchers
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