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BOSSI, GIUSEPPE (1777-1816)

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BOSSI, GIUSEPPE (1777-1816) , See also:Italian painter and writer on See also:art, was See also:born at the See also:village of Busto Arsizio, near See also:Milan. He was educated at the See also:college of See also:Monza; and his See also:early fondness for See also:drawing was fostered by the director of the college, who supplied him with prints after the See also:works of See also:Agostino See also:Caracci for copies. He then studied at the See also:academy of Brera at Milan, and about 1795 went to See also:Rome, where he formed an intimate friendship with See also:Canova. On his return to Milan he. became assistant secretary, and then secretary, of the Academy of See also:Fine Arts. He rendered important service in the organization of this new institution. In 1804, in See also:conjunction with Oriani, he See also:drew up the rules of the three See also:academies of art of See also:Bologna, See also:Venice and Milan, and soon after was rewarded with the decoration of the See also:Iron See also:Crown. On the occasion of the visit of See also:Napoleon I. to Milan in 18o5, Bossi exhibited a drawing of the Last See also:Judgment of See also:Michelangelo, and pictures representing See also:Aurora and See also:Night, See also:Oedipus and See also:Creon, and the Italian See also:Parnassus. By command of See also:Prince See also:Eugene, See also:viceroy of See also:Italy, Bossi undertook to make a copy of the Last Supper of Leonardo, then almost obliterated, for the purpose of getting it rendered in See also:mosaic. The drawing was made from the remains of the See also:original with the aid of copies and the best prints. The mosaic was executed by Raffaelli, and was placed in the imperial See also:gallery of See also:Vienna. Bossi made another copy in oil, which was placed in the museum of Brera. This museum owed to him a fine collection of casts of See also:great works of See also:sculpture acquired at See also:Paris, Rome and See also:Florence.

Bossi devoted a large See also:

part of his See also:life to the study of the works of Leonardo; and his last See also:work was a See also:series of drawings in monochrome representing incidents in the life of that great See also:master. He See also:left unfinished a large See also:cartoon in See also:black See also:chalk of the Dead See also:Christ in the bosom of See also:Mary, with See also:John and the Magdalene. In 1810 he published a See also:special work in large See also:quarto, entitled Del Cenacolo di Leonardo da See also:Vinci, which had the merit of greatly interesting See also:Goethe. His other works are DelleOpinioni di Leonardo interne See also:cilia simmetria de' corpi umani (1811), and Del Tipo dell'arte della pittura (1816). Bossi died, at Milan on the 15th of See also:December 1816. A See also:monument by Canova was erected to his memory in the Ambrosian library, and a bust was placed in the Brera.

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