Francesco Cozza (Stignano (RC), 1605 – Roma, 13 January 1682) was an Italian painter of the

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period.

Life

Cozza was born in

Stignano Stignano is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Reggio Calabria in the Italian region Calabria, located about south of Catanzaro and about northeast of Reggio Calabria. Stignano borders the following municipalities: Camini, Caulonia, ...

, in

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, and died in

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. As a young man, he went to Rome where he was apprenticed to

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, with whom he traveled to

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in 1634. He is best known for his expansive panegyric ceiling fresco, ''Apotheosis of Pamphili House'' (1667–1673) in the library of

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in Rome. During 1658 to 1659, he frescoed the ''Stanza del Fuoco'' in Palazzo Pamphili in

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, working alongside

Pier Francesco Mola Pier Francesco Mola, called Il Ticinese (9 February 1612 – 13 May 1666) was an Italian painter of the High Baroque, mainly active around Rome. Biography Mola was born in Coldrerio (now in Ticino, Switzerland).''Ecstasy in the Wilderness: Pier ...

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Mattia Preti Mattia Preti (24 February 1613 – 3 January 1699) was an Italian Baroque artist who worked in Italy and Malta. He was appointed a Member of the Order of Saint John. Life Born in the small town of Taverna in Calabria, Preti was called ''Il Ca ...

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(''il Cortonese''), and

Guglielmo Cortese Guillaume Courtois () or italianized as Guglielmo Cortese, called Il Borgognone or Le Bourguignon ('the Burgundian'), (1628 – 14 or 15 June 1679 Carlo Maratta Carlo Maratta or Maratti (18 May 162515 December 1713) was an Italian Baroque painter and Drawing, draughtsman, active principallly in Rome where he was the leading painter in the second half of the 17th century. He was a fresco and canvas painte ...

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

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. 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

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. He was received into the

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at Rome in 1650. He etched several plates in the style of

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, including a ''St. Peter'' (1630); a ''Christ sleeping and adored by Angels'' and a ''St Mary Magdalene'' (1650).

Gallery

File:PALA DI S. ROCCO ic.jpg, Pala di San Rocco - Chiesa Matrice - Stignano (RC) File:Francesco Cozza 001.jpg,

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in the Wilderness File:Cozza Fuga in Egitto.jpg, ''Fuga in Egitto'', Convent of Sant'Angelo in Pescheria, Rome File:Cozza Madonna del Riscatto.jpg File:Francesco Cozza - Madonna and Child - Google Art Project.jpg, ''Madonna and Child'' File:Cozza Predica del Battista.jpg, ''La predica del Battista'', Galleria Nazionale di Arte antica, Palazzo Barberini, Rome File:Cozza Tommaso Campanella.jpg, ''Portrait of Tommaso Campanella'', Collezione Camillo Caetani, Sermoneta

References

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