Giuseppe Bossi (1777 – 1815)

• Was an Italian painter, arts administrator and writer on art.
• He was born in the town of Busto Arsizio, near Milan.
• He was educated at the college of Monza.
• He then studied at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts at Milan.
• He spent the years 1795–1801 in Rome, where he drew Roman remains and honed his skills in drawing anatomy at the morgue of a hospital.
• Bossi died at his home in via S. Maria Valle, Milan.
• A monument by Canova was erected to his memory in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, and a bust was placed in the Brera.
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