Fabrizio Boschi

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Fabrizio Boschi (1572-–1642) was a Italian painter of the early-Baroque period, active in Florence.

He is said to have been a pupil of Domenico Passignano. In 1615, Michelangelo the Younger asked Boschi 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 of the Casa Buonarroti. He was one of the artists whose biography was recorded by Filippo Baldinucci, who noted both Boschi's fiery temper as well as his “persistent imagination”.

The Casa Buonarroti in 2006 hosted an exhibition displaying works such as:

• The Israelites collecting the manna sent by God
• St Claire taking the veil from St Francis
• St Peter and St Paul as they are arrested and led to their deaths (1606, Galluzzo Certosa)
• Vision of St Bernard of Clairvaux (1630-31, San Frediano in Cestello)
• St Peter freeing a girl possessed by the devil (c. 1619-20, church of San Pietro in Jerusalem at San Gersolè )
• Chastity of Susannah from the Palazzo della Provincia in Siena (1620).
• Herodias offering Salome the head of St. John the Baptist (c. 1627-30, Musée d’Art et d’Histoire in Chambéry).

He also painted St. Bonaventure celebrating mass for the church of All saints in Florence. He painted the Martyrdom of Saints Peter and Paul for the Certosa di Galuzzo. For the church of the Dominican convent of St. Lucia, he painted an Assumption of the Virgin surrounded with Angels, and Apostles below.

[edit] References

• Catalogue of Casa Buonarroti exhibition.
• Farquhar, Maria (1855). in Ralph Nicholson Wornum: Biographical catalogue of the principal Italian painters. Woodfall & Kinder, Angel Court, Skinner Street, London; Digitized by Googlebooks from Oxford University copy on Jun 27, 2006, page 30. 
• Bryan, Michael (1886). in Robert Edmund Graves: Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume I A-K). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons, page 161.