Marcello Fogolino

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Picture of Marcello Fogolino on the Palazzo Thiene in Vicenza
Picture of Marcello Fogolino on the Palazzo Thiene in Vicenza

Marcello Fogolino (active 1510-1548) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance or Mannerist style. Originally from the Friuli, he worked early in his life in Vicenza. Returning to Friuli in 1520-21, he came to reflect the painterly style of Il Pordenone. He completed a painting of Saints Francis and John the Baptist with Prophet Daniel for the Duomo in Pordenone. He was banished from Venice, for complicity in a murder in 1527, and went to Trento. he worked painting frescoes in the Tridentine region, including Castel Buonconsiglio, Castello Malpaga, Villa Salvotti, and Palazzo Sardagna.

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  • Freedberg, Sydney J. (1993). in Pelican History of Art: Painting in Italy, 1500-1600, p357. 
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