Benigno Bossi
Benigno Bossi (1727–1792) was an Italian engraver, painter, and stucco artist. • Illustration — Sala degli Uccelli in Palazzo del Giardino in Parma with over 250 individualized stucco roundels depicting birds
Benigno Bossi
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- Born
- Benigno Bossi was born on 31 July 1727. · Arcisate.
- Died
- Benigno Bossi died on 4 November 1792. · Parma.
- Nationality
- Italy
- Occupation
- painter · copper engraver · sculptor
- Fields
- portrait
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Benigno Bossi (1727–1792) was an Italian engraver, painter, and stucco artist. • Illustration — Sala degli Uccelli in Palazzo del Giardino in Parma with over 250 individualized stucco roundels depicting birds
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Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Places of work recorded in the authority are Nuremberg, Dresden and Italy. Work by Benigno Bossi is recorded in the collections of Museo del Prado, Vanderbilt Museum of Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Minneapolis Institute of Art and Auckland Art Gallery.
He was born at Arcisate near Milan. He was intended to have studied painting under Pompeo Batoni, but that artist's death prevented it, and he was advised by Anton Raphael Mengs and Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich to apply himself to engraving. He stayed for a time in Nuremberg and Dresden, but during the Seven Years' War he had to leave Saxony, and went in 1760 to Parma where he found patronage by the duke. He died in Parma on 4 November 1792. Some sources appear to misspell his name as Benigno Rossi.
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Benigno Bossi is recorded as painter, copper engraver and sculptor.
Mascarade à la
Benigno Bossi · The Cleveland Museum of Art · Gift of the Print Club of Cleveland in memory of Louise S. Richards
Grenadier in the Greek Style, Plate 3, 1771, by Benigno Bossi
Benigno Bossi · The Cleveland Museum of Art · Gift of the Print Club of Cleveland in memory of Louise S. Richards
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1727
Benigno Bossi was born in 1727 at Arcisate.
1792
Benigno Bossi died in 1792 at Parma.
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Benigno Bossi was born in Arcisate.
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Benigno Bossi died in Parma.
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Prints
He engraved the following prints: • Self-portrait. • A Presentation in the Temple (1755). • Forty small etchings of Heads, and other subjects. • A Mascarade à la Grecque and a Suite des Vases after Ennemond Alexandre Petitot. • Four of Trophies (1771). • Four of the Attributes of the Seasons (1770). • Two of children. • Allegorical figures representing the Towns in Piedmont. • A set of 29 plates after the drawings of Parmigianino.
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- 1.Benigno Bossi , Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 13 (1971)
- 2.Bryan 1886
- 3.Accademia delle Arti del Disegno of Florence, List of artists, stated as Engraver and painter at the service of the Duke of Parma. Elected Accademico 28.9.1783.
- 4.Emporeo biografico metodico, ovvero Biografia Universale, Volume 10, By Filippo De Boni, page 579. Entry on Francesco Londonio.
- 5.List from Bryan 1886.
- 6.Metropolitan Museum of Art. Mascarade à la Grecque; Suite des Vases; and [Cheminées].
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Museo del Prado, Vanderbilt Museum of Art, National Gallery of Victoria and Minneapolis Institute of Art
Bossi, Benigno, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 2011
Bossi, Benigno, Oxford Art Online, 2003
Bossi, Benigno, Lexikon des gesamten Buchwesens Online
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