Marco Zoppo

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Ser Amantio di Nicolao (talk | contribs) at 02:55, 12 October 2016 (Cat-a-lot: Copying from Category:Quattrocento painters to Category:Italian male painters). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Image of Saint Paul

Marco Zoppo (1433–February 19, 1498) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in Bologna.

He was born in Cento.[1] He was a pupil of the painter Lippo Dalmasio then for a few years with Francesco Squarcione around 1455. He was a contemporary of Andrea Mantegna. He painted a number of variations of the Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saints while he was in Bologna. Francesco Francia was one of his pupils. He died in Venice to where he had left after working for Squarcione.

References

  1. ^ Hugo Chapman, Padua in the 1450s: Marco Zoppo and His Contemporaries, 1998.
  • Farquhar, Maria (1855). Ralph Nicholson Wornum (ed.). Biographical catalogue of the principal Italian painters. Woodfall & Kinder, Angel Court, Skinner Street, London; Digitized by Googlebooks from Oxford University copy on Jun 27, 2006. p. 234.
  • Grove Art Encyclopedia excerpt