Vincenzo Foppa
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Vincenzo Foppa (c. 1430-1515) was an influential Northern-Italian Renaissance/Quattrocento painter.
He was an elderly contemporary of Leonardo da Vinci. Born near Brescia in the Republic of Venice, he settled in Pavia around 1456, serving the dukes of Milan and emerging asone of the most prominent Lombard painters. Foppa returned to Brescia in 1489. His style shows affinities to Andrea Castagno and Carlo Crivelli. Vasari claimed he had trained in Padua, where he may have been strongly influenced by Mantegna
During his lifetime, he was highly acclaimed, especially for his skill in perspective and foreshortening. His important works include a fresco in the Brera Gallery of Milan, the Martyrdom of St Sebastian, and a Crucifixion (1435) in the Carrara Gallery of Bergamo. Many of his works have been lost. He was influential in the styles of Vincenzo Civerchio and Girolamo Romanino.
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- This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
- Web Gallery of Art biography
- Freedberg, Sydney J. (1993). in Pelican History of Art: Painting in Italy, 1500-1600, p 360.
