Giuseppe Bossi
Giuseppe Bossi (born August 11, 1777 in Busto Arsizio , Lombardy , † December 15, 1815 in Milan ) was an Italian painter , etcher and scholar.
life and work
He studied in Rome from 1795 . In 1802, after the death of Carlo Bianconi (1732-1802), he was appointed secretary of the Milan Art Academy . However, he resigned this position in 1807 to devote himself to teaching at his theoretical painting school. He devoted a large part of his life to studying Leonardo da Vinci and Dante . Giuseppe Bossi died on December 15, 1815 in Milan.
On behalf of Viceroy Eugène de Beauharnais (1781-1824) he had Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper transferred in mosaic by Giacomo Raffaelli (now in the Minorite Church in Vienna ). 71 pauses that Bossi made after copies of Leonardo's Last Supper and other drawings by Bossi are now in the possession of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar . In 1817, Grand Duke Carl August von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach brought large parts of the Bossi estate with him from his trip to Northern Italy. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was enthusiastic about Bossi and wrote the essay "Joseph Bossi on Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper in Milan", which appeared in April 1818 in "Ueber Kunst und Altertum".
As a scholar, Giuseppe Bossi is known for his magnificent work “Del cenacolo di Leonardo da Vinci” (German: “The Last Supper of Leonardo da Vinci”) and his participation in the edition of Vasari's “Vite de 'più eccellenti, pittori, scultori e architetti” ( German: "Lives of the most distinguished painters, sculptors and architects") gained respect.
Bossi made numerous art forgeries. The German art historian Hans Ost also attributed the creation of the so-called " self-portrait of Leonardo da Vinci " to him.
Works
as author:
- Discorso sulla utilità politica delle arti del disegno . Milan 1805
- Del cenacolo di Leonardo da Vinci . Milan 1810, digitized , Italian, accessed February 28, 2014
as editor:
- Giorgio Vasari: Vite de 'più eccellenti pittori, scultori e architetti . Milan 1807
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Bossi, Joseph II . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 2nd part. Publishing house of the typographical-literary-artistic establishment (L. C. Zamarski, C. Dittmarsch & Comp.), Vienna 1857, pp. 87-89 ( digitized version ).
- Giuseppe Bossi . In: Brockhaus' Konversationslexikon . F. A. Brockhaus, 14th edition, Leipzig-Berlin-Vienna, 1894-1896, p. 346
- Hermann Mildenberger / Serena Zanaboni (eds.): Fascinated by Leonardo. Giuseppe Bossi and Goethe. Sandstein Verlag, Dresden 2016, ISBN 978-3-95498-242-4 .
Web links
- “Goethe, Bossi and Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper” , In: Blog of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar , 2016.
- Hermann Mildenberger and Serena Zanaboni: Was Giuseppe Bossi a forger? , In: Blog of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar , 2016.
- Serena Zanaboni: Giuseppe Bossi - A portrait , In: Blog of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar, 2016.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Goethe, Giuseppe Bossi and Leonardo da Vinci's "Last Supper". In: blog.klassik-stiftung.de. Retrieved August 25, 2016 .
- ↑ Goethe, Giuseppe Bossi and Leonardo da Vinci's "Last Supper". In: blog.klassik-stiftung.de. Retrieved August 25, 2016 .
- ↑ Peter Dittmar: Did Leonardo da Vinci draw this self-portrait? , welt.de, March 3, 2009, accessed on February 28, 2014.
- ↑ Hans Ost: The Leonardo portrait in the Kgl. Turin library and other forgeries by Giuseppe Bossi . Gebrüder Mann Verlag, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-7861-1299-1
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Bossi, Giuseppe |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian painter, etcher and scholar |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 11, 1777 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Busto Arsizio , Lombardy |
DATE OF DEATH | December 15, 1815 |
Place of death | Milan |