Felice Boselli (

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, 20 April 1650 –

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, 23 August 1732) was an Italian painter of the

Baroque The Baroque ( , , ) is a Western Style (visual arts), style of Baroque architecture, architecture, Baroque music, music, Baroque dance, dance, Baroque painting, painting, Baroque sculpture, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from ...

period, active mainly in

. He was not the pupil of Giuseppe Nuvolone, the son of Panfilo, as some have stated, but instead of Giuseppe's brother, Michelangelo Nuvolone. In that studio, he met the still-life painter Angelo Maria Crivelli also called ''il Crivellone'', who became influential in his style. He is known for

still-life A still life (: still lifes) is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which are either natural (food, flowers, dead animals, plants, rocks, shells, etc.) or human-made (drinking glasses, books, ...

paintings of live and dead game, including animals, birds, and fish.

References

* **Note Bryan misspells surname as ''Botelli''. *
Short bibliographyEmilia Romagna
by Touring club italiano. This source lists Boselli's first master as Bartolomeo Arbotori. 1650 births 1732 deaths Painters from Piacenza 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 18th-century Italian painters Italian Baroque painters Italian still life painters 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub