BOCCATI, GIOVANNI di PIERMATTEO, known as il. – Painter, born in Camerino around 1420; in 1445 he moved to Perugia where he is last recorded in 1480. More than from the Marchigian milieu in which his early training took place (he may have been a pupil of L. Salimbeni the Younger), his style derived from examples by Domenico Veneziano, Filippo Lippi, and Piero della Francesca, from the latter of whom he borrowed—though in a superficial manner—the taste for vast perspectival backgrounds and the geometric rigor of compositions.
Boccati infused his paintings with a harmonious festivity of color, whose merit partly makes one forget the elementary nature of his compositions and figures. His principal works include the *Madonna of the Pergola* (1447, Galleria Nazionale, Perugia); the *Madonna of the Orchestra* (still extant) in the church of S. Eustachio in Belforte (1468); and the *Madonna and Saints* (1473) in Budapest.
See Plate CIII.