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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Guido Boggiani
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Guido Boggiani

Omegna, Italy, 1861 - 1902, Paraguay
BiographyOxford Art Online:
Italian, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 1861, in Omegna (Lago d'Orta, Piedmont); died 1902, in Paraguay.
Painter. Landscapes.
A pupil of F. Carcano, Guido Boggiani started exhibiting in 1883 with Collecting Chestnuts (Rome) and Perils of Saint Anne, Olive Trees at Francheville-sur-Mer, Path near Lago Maggiore and Villages (Venice, 1887), and a monumental painting entitled Quies (Milan, 1894). He travelled to South America and brought back a number of landscapes that were exhibited in Rome in 1894 and in Turin in 1898. Boggiani was a robust colourist whose original landscapes are held in generally high regard.
("BOGGIANI, Guido." Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press, accessed July 30, 2015, www.oxfordartonline.com)


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