Giovanni Boccati

Giovanni di Pier Matteo Boccati da Camerino , more simply Giovanni Boccati (Camerino, 1420 - after 1480) is a Italian painter of Gothic, known invoice and credit in Ombrie of 1444 to 1480.

Biography

Accompanied by Giovanni Angelo d' Antonio, his compatriot of Camerino, they start from Urbino in January 1443, for Florence with the workshop of FRA Filippo Lippi for a work on one of its retables.

In 1444, returned from Florence, for Perugia, it obtains in October the citizenship of the city.

He is the author, about 1447, of a Retable Polyptyque intended for the church San Domenico, celebrates it Madonna del Pergolato (Madonna with the arbor, 186,5 cm X 248 cm) ordered by the Confraternita dei Disciplinati di San Domenico for the sum of 250 guilders. Work represents the Virgin and the Jesus Child, sitted on a throne and surrounded by symmetrical manner by angels musicians and singers, as by four saints who are in fact the four Doctorss of the Church Roman. From left to right, one can identify holy Ambroise, holy Jerome (with the red hat of the cardinals), holy Gregoire and holy Augustin. It leaves the city for Padoue, probably with Girolamo di Giovanni, which is documented there in 1450.

It returns in Camerino in 1451 for the weddings of Giulio Cesare da Varano and Giovanna Malatesta.

In 1467, Frederic III of Montefeltro commissions it for the frescos of a room of the new wing of its palate (Camera Picta, Palazzo Ducale, Urbino).

Again in Camerino, in 1465, as an act of the notary Antonio Pascucci attests it, it finishes there three years later its polittico belfortese.

In 1480, it is in Perugia, for two tables of the churches S. Benedetto sotto S. Nicolò of That and S. Salvatore Pozzagli .
In December of the same year it yields in hiring a ground of its properties.

No information is available on the date of its death.

Works

  • Crowning of the Virgin , work on a retable of FRA Filippo Lippi in January 1443, to Florence for the church Sant' Ambrogio
  • Madonna del Pergolato (1447), polyptyque retable, Galleria Nazionale dell' Umbria in Perugia
  • the Virgin and the Child on a throne enters from the angels and two putti , Fesch museum, Ajaccio
  • Two scenes of the life of saint Sabinus , collection Thyssen-Bornemisza
  • Polyptyque (1468), parish church San Pietro with Belforte del Chienti

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