Luigi Boscolo

Luigi Antonio Boscolo (; 21 March 1823 – 14 February 1906) was an Italian engraver, active in Venice and Rovigo.

Biography

Born in Rovigo, he first studied in his hometown, proving a great talent for drawing and painting. His teacher Antonio Bernati, architect, painter, engraver, helped him to obtain a scholarship to study at the Accademia di Belle Arti of Venice. 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 Serenessima Republic 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. 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. Traniello and Stocco listed 43 works (subject, if after, where, year, numbers) after the exhibition dedicated to Luigi Boscolo in Rovigo in October 1969.

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.

He died very alert but worn out, 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

Works La Fornarina, after Raphael, 1844, maybe his first important job (he was only 21 years old) La Maddalena, after Natale Schiavoni, 1846 Madonna della seggiola, after Raphael, 1864 Madonna con putto / del pomo, after Giovanni Bellini, 1853/1858 Cardinale Pietro Silvestri, 1859 Francesco Morosini Doge of Venice, 1884, maybe his latest very important job Victor Emmanuel II King of Italy Umberto I of Italy King of Italy Margherita of Savoy Queen of Italy Victor Emmanuel III King of Italy''