Giuseppe Bossi

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Portrait bust of Giuseppe Bossi, Palazzo Brera , Milan.

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.

So-called " self-portrait of Leonardo da Vinci ".
Red chalk drawing , Biblioteca Reale , Turin.
Hans Ost attributed it to Giuseppe Bossi.

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

Web links

Commons : Giuseppe Bossi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Goethe, Giuseppe Bossi and Leonardo da Vinci's "Last Supper". In: blog.klassik-stiftung.de. Retrieved August 25, 2016 .
  2. Goethe, Giuseppe Bossi and Leonardo da Vinci's "Last Supper". In: blog.klassik-stiftung.de. Retrieved August 25, 2016 .
  3. Peter Dittmar: Did Leonardo da Vinci draw this self-portrait? , welt.de, March 3, 2009, accessed on February 28, 2014.
  4. 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