Full Name: Bossi, Giuseppe
Gender: male
Date Born: 1777
Date Died: 1815
Place Born: Busto Arsizio, Varese, Lombardy, Italy
Place Died: Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Home Country/ies: Italy
Subject Area(s): Italian (culture or style), Italian Renaissance-Baroque styles, and Renaissance
Career(s): secretaries (public officers)
Overview
Del Cenacolo di Leonardo da Vinci, 1810; secretary to the Accademia di Brera, 1801-1807. He was responsible for their inclusion in the Pinacoteca di Brera, his most famous acquisitions include Raphael’s Marriage of the Virgin (1504) and the Virgin and Child by Giovanni Bellini (1460).
Archives
- Il Fondo Giuseppe Bossi, Biblioteca Ambrosiana. http://ambrosiana.comperio.it/sites/ambrosiana/assets/Ambrosiana/FONDO-GIUSEPPE-BOSSI.pdf.
Contributors: Emily Crockett and Lee Sorensen