Marco Boschini

{{Short description|Italian painter and engraver of the early Baroque period}}

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Marco Boschini (1602–1681) was an Italian painter and engraver of the early Baroque period in Venice.

He was born in Venice, and was educated in the school of Palma il Giovane. He painted The Last Supper for the sacristy of {{ill|Church of San Girolamo (Venice)|lt=San Girolamo|it|Chiesa di San Girolamo (Venezia)}} at Venice. He also distinguished himself as an engraver; for example, he engraved and tinted in aquaforte paintings of Bartolo Ceru.[https://books.google.com/books?id=xF2-ii62e68C Biographical History of the Five Arts being memoirs of the lives and works]. by Shearjashub Spooner, 1867, page 190.

As a writer on art, he was the author of several publications, such as: La Carta del Navegar pittoresco (1660), a panygeric poem about Venetian painting; Le minere della pittura veneziana (1664) and Le ricche minere della pittura veneziana (1674), two city guides of Venice; I gioieli pittoreschi. Virtuoso ornamento della città di Vicenza (1676), a city guide of Vicenza.

Boschini actually earned the most of his income as an art seller, working as an agent for (among others) cardinal Leopoldo de' Medici.

• [https://books.google.com/books?id=_7Y-AAAAcAAJ&q=Marco+Boschini Descrizione di tutte le pubbliche pitture della Città di Venezia e isole circonvicine o sia Rinnovazione delle Ricche Minere.] by Marco Boschini. Presso Pietro Bassaglia, Venice. 1732.

The major Venetian painters for which he has brief biographies in his text, and arranged in general chronologic order, are: