Born in Rovigo, he first studied in his hometown,[7] proving a great talent for drawing and painting. His teacher Antonio Bernati,[1][4][8] architect, painter, engraver, helped him to obtain a scholarship to study at the Accademia di Belle Arti of Venice.[9] He was so clever that he became soon an assistant of his teacher in his atelier. He was to become professor at the Accademia di Belle Arti of Venice too, and later knighted.
He was a defender of The SerenessimaRepublic of Venice or, better to say, the Republic of San Marco against the Austro-Hungarian Army, during its short life in the years 1948 and 1849.[4]
Among his engravings are those of The Bathers by Francesco Hayez, the Magdalen by Natale Schiavoni, works given an award by the Academy of Fine Arts of Milan; The Odalisque also by Schiavoni; a portrait of Carlo Goldoni by Alessandro Longhi, engravings awarded by the Academy of Belle Arti in Venice; the Madonna del Pomo by Giovanni Bellini; a portrait of Malatesta Buglioni by the painter Raffaele Giannetti of Genoa; La Sorpresa del Bechi di Firenze; Torquato Tasso at the Hospital[10] Sant'Anna in Ferrara, and the Poet Camoens or better Camões in prison by the painter Luigi Moretti of Venice; and finally five portraits of King Vittorio Emanuele, King Umberto, of Cardinal Silvestri of Rovigo, Conte Spiridione Papadopoli of Venice, and Conte Luigi Camerini of Padua.[11] Traniello and Stocco listed 43 works (subject, if after, where, year, numbers) after the exhibition dedicated to Luigi Boscolo in Rovigo in October 1969.[4][1]
Though he wasn't a rich man, he gave up the opportunity to work at the Bank of Italy to keep his artistic freedom.[4]
Luigi Boscolo Engraver Tomb - Cemetery of Rovigo Italy
He lived and worked in Venice for over 20 years (1875–1889); when he came in Rovigo back, he was now old and his health was poor. He gave all his engraved copper plates to the Municipaly and Accademia dei Concordi of Rovigo and the Municipality gave him a life annuality to add to his pension.
During his life he was a student, a teacher and a member of the Accademia di Belle Arti of Venice and a member (since 1854)[12] and artistic inspector of Accademia dei Concordi in Rovigo.[4]
In Rovigo, Luigi Boscolo street is in the oldest part of the town, by side Piazza Merlin (ex Piazza Roma), the old Ghetto, the medieval walls, the ancient Porta San Bortolo.[14]
He died very alert but worn out,[4] 82 years old,[3][5] at the Civil Hospital in Rovigo.
His tomb is in the Cemetery of Rovigo; epitaph/epigraph: ...Nestore degli incisori italiani...; Nestor means reliable wise senior advisor of Italian engravers.
Gallery
The penitent Mary Magdalene in the wilderness, holding a cross in her left hand MET DP883309
Scene with Columbus Met DP885620
Torquato Tasso at the Ospedale Sant Anna MET DP883560
Works
La Fornarina, after Raphael, 1844, maybe his first important job (he was only 21 years old)
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Pizzamano, Paola; Sigolo, Alfredo; Tchaprassian, Mihran (2023). Dizionario degli artisti nati o attivi in Polesine nel XIX e XX secolo (in Italian). Apogeo Editore. ISBN979-12-81386-07-5.
^State Archive of Rovigo: baptism date searched for and confirmed 6th June 2024.
^ abcRegister log of Dead, year 1906. Municipality of Rovigo
^ abcdefghTraniello, Leobaldo; Stocco, Luigi (1969). Luigi Boscolo incisore (in Italian). Rovigo: I.P.A.G.
^ abTomb death date is set to 15th Feb. 1906, age 84
^Documents about his baptism were found in a church named Duomo in Rovigo but, turning over the pages of same old books, one could read that he was born in March 1824 in Ferrara and that he studied in Ferrara when he was young.
^"L’Accademia dei Concordi nella vita rodigina", by Giuseppe Pietropoli, ristampa con aggiornamenti al 2013 a cura di Adriano Mazzetti, Ennio Raimondi e Luciano Zerbinati, Accademia dei Concordi Editore, Rovigo 2017
Bagatin, Pier Luigi (2024). I Concordi di Rovigo. Profilo storico della pluricentenaria Accademia e del suo speciale legame con Rovigo e il Polesine (in Italian). Antilia. ISBN979-12-80267-22-1.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link)
Pizzamano, Paola; Sigolo, Alfredo; Tchaprassian, Mihran (2023). Dizionario degli artisti nati o attivi in Polesine nel XIX e XX secolo (in Italian). Apogeo Editore. ISBN979-12-81386-07-5.
Pietropoli, Giuseppe (2017). L'Accademia dei Concordi nella vita rodigina, ristampa con aggiornamenti al 2013 a cura di Adriano Mazzetti, Ennio Raimondi e Luciano Zerbinati (in Italian). Rovigo: Accademia dei Concordi.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link)
Traniello, Leobaldo; Stocco, Luigi (1969). Luigi Boscolo incisore (in Italian). Rovigo: I.P.A.G.
"Accademia dei Concordi - Rovigo". Accademia dei Concordi – Accademia di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti. Fondata nel 1580 (in Italian). 23 May 2024. Retrieved 5 June 2024.
