Luigi Boscolo
Luigi Antonio [1] Boscolo (Italian pronunciation: [luˈiːdʒi anˈtɔːnjo ˈboskolo; ˈbɔs-]) (21 March 1823 [1] – 14 February 1906 [2][3] ) (father Luigi, mother Caterina Squarza) was an Italian engraver, active in Venice and Rovigo.
Biography[edit]
Born in Rovigo, he first studied in his hometown[4], proving a great talent for drawing and painting. His teacher Antonio Bernati[5][1][2], architect, painter, engraver, helped him to obtain a scholarship to study at the Accademia di Belle Arti of Venice. He was so clever that he became soon an assistant of his teacher in his atelier. He was to become professor at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia too, and later knighted. He was a defender of The Serenessima Republic of Venice or, better to say, the Republic of San Marco against the Austro-Hungarian Army, during its short life in the years 1948 and 1849[2].
Among his engravings are those of The Bathers by Francesco Hayez, the Magdalen by Natale Schiavoni,[6] works given an award by the Academy of Fine Arts of Milan; The Odalisque also by Schiavoni; a portrait of Carlo Goldoni by Alessandro Longhi, engravings awarded by the Academy of Belle Arti in Venice; the Madonna del Pomo by Giovanni Bellini; a portrait of Malatesta Buglioni by the painter Raffaele Giannetti of Genoa; La Sorpresa del Bechi di Firenze; a Torquato Tasso in the jails of Ferrara, and the Poet Camoens in prison by the painter Luigi Moretti of Venice; and finally five portraits of King Vittorio Emanuele, King Umberto, of Cardinal Silvestri of Rovigo, Conte Spiridione Papadopoli of Venice, and Conte Luigi Camerini of Padua.[7]
He lived and worked in Venice for over 20 years (1875-1889); when he came in Rovigo back, he was now old and his health was poor.
In 1917, after the Battle of Caporetto - World War I, his most important works were sent from Rovigo to Palazzo Venezia in Rome for safety reasons. [8]
In Rovigo, Luigi Boscolo street is in the oldest part of the town, by side Piazza Merlin (ex Piazza Roma), the old Ghetto, the ancient Porta San Bortolo[9]. His tomb is in the Cemetery of Rovigo [3]
Gallery[edit]
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The penitent Mary Magdalene in the wilderness, holding a cross in her left hand MET DP883309 -
Scene with Columbus Met DP885620 -
Torquato Tasso at the Ospedale Sant Anna MET DP883560
References[edit]
- ^ a b c "Dizionario degli artisti nati o attivi in Polesine nel XIX e XX secolo", by Paola Pizzamano - Alfredo Sigolo - Mihran Tchaprassian, Apogeo Editore, 2023, ISBN 979-12-81386-07-5
- ^ a b c "Luigi Boscolo incisore", by Leobaldo Traniello - Luigi Stocco, I.P.A.G. Editore, Rovigo, 1969
- ^ a b Tomb death date is set to 15th Feb. 1906
- ^ Documents about his birth date, place, baptism were found in a church named Duomo in Rovigo but, turning over the pages of same old books, one could read that he was born in March 1824 in Ferrara and that he studied in Ferrara when he was young.
- ^ He was active in Padua, Rovigo and Vicenza
- ^ Repentant Magdalene at Philadelphia Museum of Art.
- ^ Dizionario degli Artisti Italiani Viventi: pittori, scultori, e Architetti., by Angelo de Gubernatis. coi tipi (font/typeface) dei Successori Le Monnier (that is Le Monnier Editor), 1889, page 69.
- ^ "Concordi", by Pier Luigi Bagatin, Edizioni Antilia, 2024, ISBN 979-12-80267-22-1
- ^ 45°04'11.0"N 11°47'36.5"E
External links[edit]
Media related to Luigi Boscolo at Wikimedia Commons
- (en) MET Museum - Luigi Boscolo
- (it) Lombardia Beni Culturali - Luigi Boscolo
- (de) Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek - Luigi Boscolo
- (it) Accademia dei Concordi di Rovigo
- (it) La Minelliana - Rovigo