Giuseppe Bossi (Busto Arsizio 1777- Milan 1815)

Giuseppe Bossi (Busto Arsizio 1777- Milan 1815)

Portrait of a young girl

Oil on canvas, cm 72 x 58

With frame 98 x 84,5

Signed lower right:" Thu. Bossi".

Thanks to the signature we can connect its production to the hand of the Milanese painter Giuseppe Bossi, one of the most important protagonists of Milan’s neoclassicism alongside Ugo Foscolo, Giuseppe Parini, Alessandro Manzoni and Carlo Porta. The family seconded his early inclinations for painting by enrolling him in the Brera Academy established in 1786. There he had teachers Traballesi, Knoller, Appiani and G. Franchi. Thanks to a scholarship he was able to travel to Rome, at a particularly favorable time for the spread of neoclassical poetry, here he met Agincourt, Raimondo Cunich, Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi, Angelica Kauffmann and Marianna Dionigi. He was in friendship with Felice Giani and Canova; for him he also designed the bust for the monument in his honor in the courtyard of the Brera Academy (now kept at the Accademia Ambrosiana), while the same Bossi realizes a youthful portrait of the canova preserved at Villa Carlotta. Returned to Milan in 1801 he was appointed secretary of the academy of Bera, a role he held until 1807. He drew up a reform plan for the Academy modelled on that of the Accademia di San Luca but also aimed to give the institution unitary guidelines in order to better regulate the dilapidated world of artists.  He started the annual exhibitions in which the best students and teachers participated with their works. He was the first to propose the establishment of the Library of the Academy to encourage study. For the education of young people and those who loved art, obtained from Napoleon to converge in Brera many paintings seized by convents and churches suppressed, giving life to the first public Milanese pinacoteca.  Thanks to his intervention, the government decided to buy Raffaello’s Marriage of the Virgin and at his death the art gallery bought from the heirs the dead Christ of Mantegna. In 1807 the viceroy Eugenio di Beauharnais commissioned him a copy of Leonardo’s Last Supper to be made into a mosaic: Bossi undertook a passionate study of Leonardo’s work, which was included in the volume Del Cenacolo by Leonardo da Vinci, while the mosaic created by Giacomo Raffaelli, After the fall of Napoleon, he was taken by the Austrians to Vienna (Minoritenkirche). Bossi was a great scholar, passionate about antiquity, Raphael and Michelangelo, as well as literary works; from the Divine Comedy to Petrarch, to the Greek classics. Man of the world, writer, speaker, collector was also a skilled painter and draftsman but above as witnessed by the paintings and drawings kept in various national and temporary institutions; as the cartoon of Parnassus purchased by the Duke of Weimar Carlo Augusto and placed in the Academy of the city, the cartoon of Oedipus a settler of the Ambrosiana, The burial of Themistocles of the Pinacoteca di Brera. Although many of his creations were lost or destroyed during the Second World War. He was very attracted by the portrait, both of others and his own, as well as a figurative motif, as an essay of psychological introspection and "digging" of the character. Among the many executed and to us is the self-portrait of the Gam di Milano and the Pinacoteca; la Dama in bianco and the portrait of Gaspare Landi (GAM), portraits of Cesare Baccaria and Cralo Porta ( Museo di Milano). 

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