Andrea Boscoli (ca. 1560–1608)

• Boscoli was an Italian painter.
• A pupil of Santi di Tito around 1575.

• His first known works are two circular drawings of a Triumph of Bacchus and a Silenus, dated 1582.

• In 1587 he frescoed a Martyrdom of St. Bartholomew in the cloister of San Pier Maggiore in Florence.

• In 1592-1593 he frescoed the Convivio degli dei at the Villa di Corliano ai Bagni di Pisa. 

• From 1600 he worked in the Marche, where he had the misfortune of being accused of espionage and imprisoned for a short time.

• In the monastery of San Luca in Fabriano he produced his masterpieces, an Annunciation, a Madonna and saints, a Nativity now in the local Pinacoteca and frescoed the vault of the Orphanage.

• In 1604 the painter executed the Madonna and Saints Thomas, Lawrence and Francis signed "questa pinse Andrea Boscoli fiorentino l'anno millesicentoquattro" now in the Pinacoteca di Macerata.

• In 1606 the painter returned to Florence and died here in the early months of 1607.

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