Giuseppe Boschetto
BornApril 1841 Edit this on Wikidata
Naples Edit this on Wikidata
Died1918 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 76–77)
Naples Edit this on Wikidata

Giuseppe Boschetto (1841–1918) was an Italian painter, specializing in historical scenes. Many were set in ancient Greece or Rome, in a style known as Neo-Pompeian.

Life and work

Lucrezia Borgia and Her Father,
Pope Alexander VI

He was born to family of successful merchants, who supported his interest in art. His first lessons were in the studios of Giuseppe Mancinelli. Later, he worked with Domenico Morelli, for whom he was a prominent pupil.[1]

His first exhibitions came in the 1860s; notably a depiction of Galileo appearing before the Holy Office, which was shown at the Society for the Promotion of Fine Arts in 1865. His rendering of Eleonora Pimentel Fonseca being led to the gallows was shown at the Royal Palace in 1868. Several more major works were displayed at the Society during the 1870s, including Sortilege (1874)[2] and Maga (Sorceress, 1877).[3] That same year, he exhibited The proscriptions of Sulla and Agrippina spies on the Senate, at the Galleria dell'Accademia.[4]

In the 1880s, he began exhibiting outside of Naples. Notable examples include Santa Lucia in Naples at the Industrial Exhibition in Turin (1880), and The Death of Socrates, at the new Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome (1883). Several of his paintings were purchased by Goupil & Cie of Paris.[1]

Upon his older brother's death, he gave up painting to manage the family's business interests. His lack of commercial expertise led to a series of poor investments, leaving him penniless and in debt. He attempted to restart his painting career, but was rebuffed when he applied for a teaching position at the Academy of Fine Arts. Even his application for a part-time night school position was deemed insufficient.[1] For several years, he operated a small workshop that was frequented by young artists, but that was interrupted by World War I. He died indigent and largely forgotten.

References

Pro Patria Omnia (Women Shorn of their Hair to Provide for Bows), c. 1890
  1. 1 2 3 Biography by Anna Barricelli, from the Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 13, @ Treccani.
  2. ↑ Società Promotrice di Belle Arti in Napoli, Catalogo degli oggetti d'arte ammessi alla 11ª esposizione aperta il di 22 Marzo 1874 nella Sala di S. Domenico Maggiore, Gennaro De Angelis (Ed.)
  3. ↑ Società Promotrice di Belle Arti in Napoli, Catalogo delle opere d'arte ammesse alla 14ª Esposizione aperta il 26 dicembre 1877 nelle sale del R. Istituto di Belle arti', Gennaro De Angelis (Ed.)
  4. ↑ Dizionario degli Artisti Italiani Viventi: pittori, scultori, e Architetti, by Angelo de Gubernatis. Tipe dei Successori Le Monnier, 1889, page 69.

Further reading

  • Anna Caputi, Raffaello Causa, Raffaele Mormone (Eds.), La Galleria dell'Accademia di Belle Arti in Napoli, Banco di Napoli, 1971

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