Giovanni Boscoli
Giovanni Boscoli (c.1524 – c.1592) was an
Italian Renaissance sculptor and architect, also known as Nanni da Montepulciano after his birthplace of Montepulciano. His father Tomaso was also an architect.[1]
He studied under
The stucco work on the walls of the room dedicated to Pope Leo X in Leo X Apartments in the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence are attributed to Boscoli and Leonardo Ricciarelli.[3] He also produced a "gilded turtle with a candle" for the salone dei Cinquecento in Palazzo Vecchio. He died in Parma.
References
- ^ (in Italian) Dante Zucchelli and Renzo Fedacci, Il Palazzo Ducale di Parma, ed. Artegrafica Silva, Parma 1980
- ^ (in Italian) R. Lasagni, Dizionario biografico dei Parmigiani, ed. PPS, Parma 1999
- ^ "Dizionario biografico Treccani" (in Italian).