Benigno Bossi

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Benigno Bossi (born July 31, 1727 in Porto Ceresio on Lake Lugano in Italy , † November 4, 1792 in Parma , Italy) was an Italian engraver , painter and plasterer .

Life

Bossi intended to learn painting from the painter Pompeo Batoni . His death prevented this and Bossi had to turn to other ways of earning a living due to lack of money. He followed the advice of Anton Raphael Mengs and Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich to deal with copperplate engraving and spent several years in Germany, first in Nuremberg. After that he lived in Dresden until the beginning of the Seven Years' War . He returned to Italy via Milan in 1760. There he was chosen by the Dukes of Parma for many commissions and died in the city of Parma on November 4, 1792.

Work and works

Bossi used the techniques of etching , aquatint , and the new chalk technique of the French engraver Gilles Demarteau for his graphic work .

Bossi's paintings in a style somewhere between Baroque and Classicism can be found in churches in Parma and the surrounding area and in ducal castles.

In two city palaces of the dukes there are famous stucco work by Bossi. He provided the Sala degli Ucelli in the Palazzo del Giardino in Parma with a coffered ceiling on which more than 250 individual depictions of birds made of stucco can be seen. Further stucco work can be found in the Palazzo di Riserva in Parma.

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personal data
SURNAME Bossi, Benigno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian engraver
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1727
PLACE OF BIRTH Porto Ceresio , Italy
DATE OF DEATH November 4, 1792
Place of death Parma