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Giuseppe BOSSI
Giuseppe Bossi (Busto Arsizio 1777- Milan 1815), Portrait of a young girl

19thC

$6,949.23
£5,172.29
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MX$128,831.13
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Giuseppe Bossi (Busto Arsizio 1777- Milan 1815) Portrait of a young girl Oil on canvas, 72 x 58 cm Framed 98 x 84.5 Signed at lower right:" Gio. Bossi." Thanks to the signature we can link its production to the hand of Milanese painter Giuseppe Bossi, among the most important protagonists of Milanese neoclassicism alongside Ugo Foscolo, Giuseppe Parini, Alessandro Manzoni and Carlo Porta. The family seconded his early inclinations for painting by enrolling him in the Brera Academy established in 1786. There he had masters Traballesi, Knoller, Appiani and G. Franchi. Thanks to a scholarship he was able to travel to Rome, at a particularly favorable time for the spread of neoclassical poetics; here he met Agincourt, Raimondo Cunich, Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi, Angelica Kauffmann and Marianna Dionigi. He was on friendly terms with Felice Giani and with Canova; for him he also designed the bust for the Monument in his honor in the courtyard of the Brera Academy (now preserved at the Accademia Ambrosiana), while Bossi himself made a youthful portrait of Canova preserved at Villa Carlotta. He returned to Milan in 1801 and was appointed secretary of the Academy of Bera, a position he held until 1807. He devised a reform plan for the Academy that was modeled on that of the Academy of St. Luke's but also aimed to give the institution unified guidelines so as to better regulate the jagged world of artists. He initiated the annual exhibitions in which the best students and faculty participated with their work. He was the first to propose the establishment of the Academy Library to encourage study. For the education of young people and those who loved art, he obtained from Napoleon to have many paintings seized from suppressed convents and churches converge at Brera, creating Milan's first public picture gallery. Thanks to his intervention, the government decided to purchase Raphael's Marriage of the Virgin, and upon his death the picture gallery bought Mantegna's Dead Christ from his heirs. In 1807, Viceroy Eugene de Beauharnais commissioned him to make a copy of Leonardo's Last Supper to be executed in mosaic.Bossi undertook a passionate study of Leonardo's work that resulted in the volume Del Cenacolo di Leonardo da Vinci, while the mosaic made by Giacomo Raffaelli, after the fall of Napoleon, was taken by the Austrians to Vienna (Minoritenkirche).Bossi was a great scholar, passionate about antiquity, Raphael and Michelangelo, as well as literary works; from the Divine Comedy to Petrarch and the Greek classics. A man of the world, man of letters, orator, and collector, he was also a skilled painter and draughtsman but above as evidenced by the paintings and drawings preserved in various national and interim institutions; such as the cartoon de Parnassus purchased by the Duke of Weimar Charles Augustus and placed in the city's Academy, the cartoon of Oedipus at Colonus in the Ambrosiana, The Burial of Themistocles in the Brera Art Gallery. Although many of his creations were lost or destroyed during World War II. He was greatly attracted to portraits, both of others and his own, as well as a figurative motif, as an essay in psychological introspection and "excavation" of character. Among the many executed and that have come down to us are the Self-Portrait in the Milan Gam and Pinacoteca; the Lady in White and the portrait of Gaspare Landi (GAM), portraits of Cesare Baccaria and Cralo Porta ( Museum of Milan).
  • Creator:
    Giuseppe BOSSI (1777 - 1815, Italian)
  • Creation Year:
    19thC
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 28.35 in (72 cm)Width: 22.84 in (58 cm)
  • More Editions & Sizes:
    cm 72 x 58Price: $5,751
  • Medium:
    Canvas,Oil
  • Period:
    19th Century
  • Condition:
  • Gallery Location:
    Milan, IT
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU2639216593582

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