Thursday, August 11, 2022

Fabrizio Boschi (1572-1642) - Design and Study Drawings

Fabrizio Boschi
Study for Pietà
ca. 1620-30
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Fabrizio Boschi
 Study of an Archer
before 1642
drawing
Morgan Library, New York

Fabrizio Boschi
Head of a Woman
before 1642
drawing
Musée du Louvre

attributed to Fabrizio Boschi
Angel
ca. 1600-1610
drawing
Yale University Art Gallery

attributed to Fabrizio Boschi
Zechariah approaching the Altar
before 1642
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Fabrizio Boschi
Drapery Study
before 1642
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Fabrizio Boschi
Study of Standing Figure
before 1642
drawing
Harvard Art Museums

Fabrizio Boschi
Tobias and the Angel
before 1642
drawing
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

Fabrizio Boschi
Study for St Matthew in Niche
before 1642
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Fabrizio Boschi
Decorative Scheme with Standing Figure in Niche
before 1642
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Fabrizio Boschi
Design for Wall Decoration with Fountain and Nymph
seen through an Archway

before 1642
drawing, with watercolor
Musée du Louvre

Fabrizio Boschi
Design for Cartouche
before 1642
drawing
Morgan Library, New York

Fabrizio Boschi
Design for Funerary Monument
before 1642
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Fabrizio Boschi
Design for Monumental Doorway
before 1642
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Fabrizio Boschi (designer)
Sacristy Doorway
mid-17th century
Basilica di Santa Maria Novella, Florence

"Whatever the original meaning of the word Baroque, or the scope of the concept, its meaning until recently was bad.  From the Enlightenment till late in the nineteenth century, the view had prevailed that was still voiced by Benedetto Croce as late as 1924: "Art is never baroque, and the Baroque is never art."  The view prevailing at the present time is vastly different.  In 1857 Delacroix noted in his Journal that Baroque art has great values lacking in the classical art of antiquity.  By 1881 Willamowitz-Moellendorf was using the term generically, speaking of Hellenism as Greek Baroque.  By 1945 this twofold sense of the word Baroque was widely established: 1) as an historic concept, to designate the period or stage in Western culture following the Renaissance roughly equivalent to the seventeenth century; 2) as an abstract psychological concept, to designate a type of expression that may occur in any historic culture and may recur at various stages of development."

– Ernest C. Hassold, The Baroque as a Basic Concept of Art (College Art Journal, Autumn 1946)