Benigno Bossi

Benigno Bossi ( born July 31, 1727 Porto Ceresio on Lake Lugano in Italy, † 1800 in Parma, Italy ) was an Italian engraver, painter and plasterer.

Life

Bossi intended by the painter Pompeo Batoni to learn painting. Whose death prevented this and Bossi had to turn to a lack of money other ways to earn a living. He followed the advice of Anton Raphael Mengs and Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich, to deal with the copper stinging and spent several years in Germany, first in Nuremberg. After that he lived until the beginning of the Seven Years' War in Dresden. He returned via Milan in 1760 returned to Italy. He was selected by the Dukes of Parma for many jobs and died in the city of Parma in 1800. Other sources give different dates of death as 1792 and 1793.

Work and works

Bossi turned to the techniques of etching, aquatint, and the new chalk method of the French engraver Gilles Demarteau for his graphic work.

Bossi's paintings in a style between baroque and classicism are in churches in Parma and the surrounding area and in ducal palaces.

In two Stadtplästen the Dukes are famous stucco Bossi. The Sala degli Ucelli in the Palazzo del Giardino in Parma, he has provided with a coffered ceiling can be seen on the more than 250 individual representations of birds from stucco. More stucco located in Palazzo di Riserva Parma.