Giuseppe Bossi was an Italian painter, arts administrator and writer on art. He ranks among the foremost figures of Neoclassical culture in Lombardy, along with Ugo Foscolo, Giuseppe Parini, Andrea Appiani or Manzoni. He was born in the town of Busto Arsizio, near Milan. He was educated at the college of Monza; and his early fondness for drawing was fostered by the director of the college.

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  • Giuseppe Bossi was an Italian painter, arts administrator and writer on art. He ranks among the foremost figures of Neoclassical culture in Lombardy, along with Ugo Foscolo, Giuseppe Parini, Andrea Appiani or Manzoni. He was born in the town of Busto Arsizio, near Milan. He was educated at the college of Monza; and his early fondness for drawing was fostered by the director of the college. He then studied at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts at Milan, and spent the years 1795–1801 in Rome, where he drew Roman remains and honed his skills in drawing anatomy at the morgue of a hospital (Getty) and formed an intimate friendship with Canova, who made a portrait bust of Bossi. He met Jacques-Louis David in Lyon in 1802, though his own style employed a less rigorously classicizing technique. On his return to Milan he fell in with the circle of progressive young artists that formed the Cameretta Portiana He became assistant secretary, and then secretary (1802–1807) of the Brera Academy, whose collection of paintings, the Pinacoteca he essentially founded. In 1804, in conjunction with Barnabo Oriani, he drew up revised organizational rules for the three academies of art of Bologna, Venice and Milan, which lent weight to the need for public collections of great examples of the arts, which were being supplied from the dissolved monasteries and secularized churches of Lombardy, under Napoleonic administration. He was rewarded with the Order of the Iron Crown. On the occasion of the visit of Napoleon to Milan in 1805, Bossi exhibited at the Pinacoteca a drawing of the Last Judgment of Michelangelo, and paintings representing Aurora and Night, Oedipus and Creon, and the Italian Parnassus. By command of prince Eugene de Beauharnais, viceroy of Italy, Bossi undertook to make a copy of The Last Supper of Leonardo da Vinci, then almost obliterated, for the purpose of getting it rendered in mosaic. The drawing was made from the remains of the original with the aid of copies and the best prints. The mosaic, 9.18 m. in length, was executed by the Roman mosaicist Giacomo Raffaelli, and was placed in the Minoritenkirche, Vienna. Bossi made another copy in oil, which was placed in the Pinacoteca Brera. The Brera Academy owed to him its fine collection of casts of great works of sculpture acquired at Paris, Rome and Florence. For himself, Bossi collected books, drawings, prints, paintings, coins, sculptures, and antiquities. Bossi devoted a large part of his life to the study of the works of Leonardo, whose drawing manner he imitated accurately enough for his productions to have passed as Leonardos. and his last work was a series of drawings in monochrome representing incidents in the life of that great master. He left unfinished a large cartoon in black chalk of the Dead Christ in the bosom of Mary, with John and the Magdalene. In 1810 he published a special work in large quarto, entitled Del Cenacolo di Leonardo da Vinci, which had the merit of greatly interesting Goethe, who shared Bossi's urgent dream of saving Leonardo's fresco. Bossi's other publications were Delle Opinioni di Leonardo intorno alla simmetria de corpi umani (1811), and Del Tipo dell'arte della pittura (1816). His diary, 1807–1815, is a useful guide to the official artistic life of Napoleonic Milan. Bossi died at his home in via S. Maria Valle, Milan. A monument by Canova was erected to his memory in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, and a bust was placed in the Brera.
  • Giuseppe Bossi war ein italienischer Maler, Radierer und Gelehrter. Er studierte ab 1795 in Rom, wurde nach Bianconis Tod 1802 zum Sekretär der Mailänder Kunstakademie ernannt, welche Stelle er jedoch nach einigen Jahren 1807 wieder niederlegte, um sich dem Unterricht an seiner theoretischen Malerschule zu widmen. Einen großen Teil seines Lebens widmete er dem Studium Leonardo da Vincis und Dantes. Giuseppe Bossi starb am 15. Dezember 1815 in Mailand. Er ließ im Auftrag des Vizekönigs Eugen das Abendmahl Leonardo da Vincis durch Rafaelli in Mosaik übertragen (jetzt in der Wiener Minoritenkirche). Bossi war ein guter Zeichner, in der Farbengebung jedoch frostig. Als Gelehrter ist Giuseppe Bossi durch sein Prachtwerk "Del cenacolo di Leonardo da Vinci" (Mail. 1810, mit Kupfern) und seine Mitwirkung an der Ausgabe von Vasaris "Vite de' più ecccllenti architetti, pittori e scultori" (das. 1807) zu Ansehen gelangt. Bossi hat zahlreiche Kunstfälschungen angefertigt. Seine berühmteste Fälschung ist das "Selbstbildnis" des Leonardo da Vinci, wie Hans Ost 1980 nachweisen konnte.
  • Giuseppe Bossi était un peintre italien, un administrateur d'art et écrivain. Il est l'une des figures les plus importantes du néoclassicisme en Lombardie, avec Ugo Foscolo, Giuseppe Parini, Andrea Appiani ou Manzoni Giuseppe Bossi est un partisan résolu de la République Cisalpine. De 1801 à 1807, il est le secrétaire de l'Académie des beaux-arts de Brera. Il peint en 1802 le tableau La Reconnaissance de la République Italienne envers Napoléon (La Riconoscenza della Repubblica Italiana a Napoleone). Il est présenté à l'empereur par Francesco Melzi d'Eril en 1805. La même année, Francesco Melzi d’Eril commande à Bossi La Paix de Constance, une métaphore du nouveau Royaume d’Italie, qui devait amener la paix et l’unité à l’Italie. Le tableau ne fut jamais exécuté, mais son carton est conservé au cabinet des dessins du Castello Sforzesco. En avril 1807, le vice-Roi d’Italie, Eugène de Beauharnais, commande à Giuseppe Bossi une copie de la Cène de Léonard de Vinci dont Giacomo Raffaelli doit tirer une mosaïque. Giuseppe Bossi s’efforce de restituer le plus fidèlement possible la fresque en se basant sur un long travail de documentation. Il étudie et effectue plusieurs calques des différentes copies existantes de la Cène : des calques des têtes des apôtres peints par Andrea Solario à Castellazzo et de celles peintes par Andrea Bianchi,dit il Vespino pour le cardinal Federico Borromeo, des calques des mains de Ponte Capriasca. Il s’efforce de restituer le plus fidèlement possible cette recherche dans son ouvrage, Del Cenacolo di Leonardo da Vinci Libbri Quattro. La copie de Giuseppe Bossi fit louée par ses amis, mais vivement attaquée en 1816 par Ugo Foscolo dans son pamphlet Hypercalypseos. Liber singularis, dirigé contre les anciens partisans de Napoléon et du Regno Italiano.
  • Fu uno dei principali protagonisti del neoclassicismo milanese accanto a Ugo Foscolo, Giuseppe Parini, Alessandro Manzoni e Carlo Porta. Nonostante fosse anche letterato, poeta e disegnatore di rilievo, viene soprattutto ricordato per le sue opere pittoriche. Dopo aver frequentato l'Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, una borsa di studio a Roma gli permise di venire a contatto con i grandi modelli della pittura rinascimentale e della statuaria classica frequentando artisti come Antonio Canova, Felice Giani e Angelika Kauffmann. Rientrato a Milano, nel 1801 fu nominato segretario dell'Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera a Milano e nel 1803 curò la redazione del nuovo Statuto di Brera introducendo sostanziali riforme e novità nell'insegnamento accademico e portando in breve questo istituto ad avere un ruolo preminente nella determinazione del gusto del tempo in Italia settentrionale. Con lo stesso Statuto fu dato grande impulso alla Pinacoteca di Brera, che venne dotata del suo primo nucleo di opere. Ricoprì tale incarico fino al 1807 anno in cui, con sua grande amarezza, rassegnò le dimissioni. Ed è proprio dal 1807 che Bossi inizia a scrivere le sue Memorie sotto forma di diario della propria vita, attività che sospenderà soltanto pochi giorni prima di morire nel 1815. Insieme ad altri artisti di tendenze neoclassiche, effettua le decorazioni degli interni della Villa Melzi d'Eril a Bellagio.
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  • Giuseppe Bossi was an Italian painter, arts administrator and writer on art. He ranks among the foremost figures of Neoclassical culture in Lombardy, along with Ugo Foscolo, Giuseppe Parini, Andrea Appiani or Manzoni. He was born in the town of Busto Arsizio, near Milan. He was educated at the college of Monza; and his early fondness for drawing was fostered by the director of the college.
  • Giuseppe Bossi war ein italienischer Maler, Radierer und Gelehrter. Er studierte ab 1795 in Rom, wurde nach Bianconis Tod 1802 zum Sekretär der Mailänder Kunstakademie ernannt, welche Stelle er jedoch nach einigen Jahren 1807 wieder niederlegte, um sich dem Unterricht an seiner theoretischen Malerschule zu widmen. Einen großen Teil seines Lebens widmete er dem Studium Leonardo da Vincis und Dantes. Giuseppe Bossi starb am 15. Dezember 1815 in Mailand.
  • Giuseppe Bossi était un peintre italien, un administrateur d'art et écrivain. Il est l'une des figures les plus importantes du néoclassicisme en Lombardie, avec Ugo Foscolo, Giuseppe Parini, Andrea Appiani ou Manzoni Giuseppe Bossi est un partisan résolu de la République Cisalpine. De 1801 à 1807, il est le secrétaire de l'Académie des beaux-arts de Brera.
  • Fu uno dei principali protagonisti del neoclassicismo milanese accanto a Ugo Foscolo, Giuseppe Parini, Alessandro Manzoni e Carlo Porta. Nonostante fosse anche letterato, poeta e disegnatore di rilievo, viene soprattutto ricordato per le sue opere pittoriche.
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