Fabrizio Boschi (1572–1642) was an Italian painter of the early-

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period, active in

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. He is said to have been a pupil of

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. In 1615, Michelangelo Buonarroti the Younger asked Boschi to paint ''Michelangelo presenting the wooden model of the Tribunal of the Wheel in Via Giulia in Rome to

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'' on one of the walls of the Gallery of the

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. He was one of the artists whose biography was recorded by

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, who noted both Boschi's fiery temper as well as his “persistent imagination”. He also painted ''St. Bonaventure celebrating mass'' for the church of Ognissanti in Florence. He painted the ''Martyrdom of Saints Peter and Paul'' for the Certosa di Galuzzo. For the church of the Dominican convent of Santa Lucia dè Magnoli, he painted an ''Assumption of the Virgin surrounded with Angels, and Apostles below''. .

References

Catalogue of Casa Buonarroti exhibition.
* * 1572 births 1642 deaths 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 17th-century Italian painters Painters from Florence Italian Baroque painters {{Italy-painter-16thC-stub