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fabrizio boschiRediscovering the Baroque period

The art of Fabrizio Boschi
[Susan Glasspool]

This little known artist, who lived between 1572 and 1642, was one of the painters Michelangelo Buonarroti the Younger, the great nephew of the great artist from Caprese, called in to decorate the family house in Via Ghibellina in Florence. In 1615 Boschi was asked to paint Michelangelo presenting the wooden model of the Tribunal of the Wheel in Via Giulia in Rome to Pope Julius III on one of the walls of the Gallery.

He was then at the height of his career, after first studying under Passignano and then frequenting the exciting intellectual and artistic spheres in Rome in the late 16th century. This beautifully composed masterpiece, with its brilliant colours and thickly painted brush strokes, was certainly influenced by Cigoli and Rubens, whom he had met in Rome.

Rightly defined as an early Baroque painter, Boschi was already using thick paint and strong brush strokes in the paintings he carried out prior to his departure for Rome and, by the time he returned, his work had acquired a new compositional grandeur, showing the influences of Rubens and Caravaggio. He was also a very fine draughtsman.

The exhibition includes 20 paintings on wood and canvas, many on display for the first time, together with several fine drawings, and is one of a series centred around the 17th century painters who worked for Michelangelo the Younger.
Fabrizio
Boschi

Buonarroti House
Via Ghibellina 70
Info: tel. 055.241752 - Hours: 9.30am-4pm - Closed on Tuesdays
Entrance: Euro 6,50 / 4,00 / 3,25 - From July 26th to November 13th

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