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BOSCHI— BRANPL 81 1619, d. 1675. Tuscan School. The nephew and pupil of Matteo Roselli. He was a good portrait-painter; he also assisted Roselli and his father, Fabrizio Boschi, and executed some original works in fresco in the churches of Florence. Works, Louvre, portrait of Galileo. BOSELLI, Antonio, of San Gio. Bianco, in the Val. Brembana, painted from 1509 to 1527. Venetian School. From a picture at Bergamo, he seems to have adhered to the types of the quattrocento. Works. Bergamo, San. Gristoforo, St, Peter, St. Paul, and St. Luke (1609). Louvre, four heads of Saints. {Tassi.) BOSELLI, Feuce, b. 1660, d. 1732. Lombard School. A pupil of Gioseffo Nuvolone. He was a good copyist of the figure. But his original works come under the category of stUl-life, though he pahited birds, beasts, and fishes, living as well as dead. His pictures are common in the collections of Pia- cenza. (Lanzi.) BOTTICELLI, Sandko Filipepi, called Botticelli, b. at Florence, 1447, d. 1515. Tuscan School. This artist, first the pupil of Botticelli, a jeweller, studied afterwards under Fra Filippo Lippi. His compositions are full of energy ; his sacred scenes are rich in figures, which have a characteristic and varied expression, and are well drawn, though in the prevailing dry manner of the quattrocento. He was one of the earliest masters of allegory, and his picture of ** Calumny," from Lucian's description of a similar work by Apelles, of Ephesus, in the gallery of the Uffizj, is as remarkable for its originality of subject, as for the quaint- ness of its source. Works. Florence, Uffizj, Madonna crowned by Angels; Venus Anadyo- mene, wafted on a Shell to the Shore ; the Calumny of Apelles: Academy, Coronation of the Virgin, with tlie four doctors of the church. Home, Sistine Chapel, the History- of Moses ; three subjects in fresco. Louvre, two Holy Families. Berlin Gallezy, five pictures. {Vasari.) BEAMANTINO, or Babtolomeo SuABDi, painted about 1500-1529. Lombard School. A pupil of Bramante, the architect, who was himself a pain- ter originally, whence his name of Bra- mantino. He visited Bome with the great architect, and was employed by Julius 11. in making a series of por- traits, highly spoken of by Vasari. Bra- mantino had great skill in imitation, and was a complete master of perspec- tive, not omitting its application to the human figure^ or what is more ■tech- nically termed, fore-shortening. Agos- tino da Milano, the pupil of Bramantino, is probably the Agostino di Bramantino mentioned by Lomazzo and others, and the Agostino dalle ProspetUve of Bologna. Works. Milan, Brera, Madonna en- throned with Two Angels (fresco) : San Sepolcro, Dead Christ mourned by the two Marys. Padua, the Certosa, Boof of the Chapel of St. Bruno; the Vis- conti Family presenting a Plan of the Building to the Virgin (fresco). Ber- lin Gallery, a Madonna and Child, with Saints, and an allegorical piece. BRANDI, Cow. Giacinto, b. at Poli, 1623, d. 1691. Roman School. Studied first under Gio Giacomo Sementi, and afterwards under Lanfranco, whose works he imitated. His early pic- tures are the best, as his love of gain seems to have made him eventually indiflferent ; and his works, though in- dicating great facility, are distinguished by the infallible imperfections of hasty execution. Works. Bome, San Silvestro, the Assumption of the Virgin : Gesu e Maria, al Corso, the Crowning of the Virgin: San Bocco, St. Boch giving the Sacrament to the Pestiferous.