BOCCATI, GIOVANNI di PIERMATTEO, Called Il. - Painter, b. at Camerino around 1420; in 1445 he moved to Perugia, where he is last recorded in 1480. Rather than from the Marche milieu in which his early training took place (he was perhaps a pupil of L. Salimbeni the Younger), he derived his manner from examples of Domenico Veneziano, Filippo Lippi and Piero della Francesca, from the last of whom he drew, though applying it superficially, a taste for vast perspectival backdrops and for the rigorous geometry of compositions. B. knew how to infuse into his paintings a harmonious festiveness of color, whose merit makes one partly forget the elementary quality of the compositions and figures.

His principal works are the Madonna del pergolato (1447, Galleria Nazionale of Perugia); the Madonna dell'orchestra (ibid.), the polyptych in S. Eustachio at Belforte (1468), the Madonna and Saints (1473) of Budapest. - See Pl. CIII.

Plate CIII MADONNA ENTHRONED AND SAINTS Perugia, Pinacoteca.(fot. Albani)

Bibliography3 works

BIBL.: W. Bombe, s. v. in Thieme-Becker, IV, p. 153; A. Venturi, Storia dell'arte, VII, Milan 1911, pp. 517-20; U. Gnoli, Pittori e miniatori dell'Umbria, Spoleto 1923, pp. 161-162. For various attributions to B. cf.: L. Venturi, La collezione Gualino, Turin 1926, pl. 21, and B. Berenson, Pitture italiane del Rinascimento, Milan 1936, pp. 77-78.

Elsa Gerlini

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