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GIUSEPPE BOSSI (1777-1816)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 287 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GIUSEPPE

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

Bossi devoted a large

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

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