Vincenzo Foppa

Vincenzo Foppa
St. Francis of Assisi receiving the stigmata c. 1490-1515. Milan
Born	Vincenzo Foppa c. 1427-30 Brescia, Italy
Died	c. 1515-16 Brescia, Italy
Nationality	Italian
Known for	Painting, Architecture
Notable work	Crucifixion Cappella Portinari St. Francis of Assisi receiving the stigmata
Movement	Italian Renaissance

Vincenzo Foppa (c. 1430 – c. 1515) was a Northern-Italian painter, active in a Renaissance style.

Biography

He was an elderly contemporary of Leonardo da Vinci. Born at Bagnolo Mella, near Brescia in the Republic of Venice, he settled in Pavia around 1456, serving the dukes of Milan and emerging as one of the most prominent Lombard painters. Foppa returned to Brescia in 1489. His style shows affinities to Andrea del 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, the fresco decoration of the Portinari Chapel at the Basilica of Sant'Eustorgio, Milan, and a Crucifixion (1435) now in the Accademia Carrara of Bergamo. Many of his works have been lost.

Foppa was influential in the styles of Vincenzo Civerchio, Girolamo Romanino, and his nephew Paolo Caylina the Younger.

Sources

• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
• Freedberg, Sydney J. (1993). Painting in Italy, 1500-1600. Penguin Books. p. 360.

External links

• Vincenzo Foppa At Gallery of Art
• Web Gallery of Art biography
• Federico Nicoli Cristiani (1807). Della Vita delle pitture di Lattanzio Gambara; Memorie Storiche aggiuntevi brevi notizie intorno a' più celebri ed eccelenti pittori Bresciani. Spinelli e Valgiti, Brescia. pp. 157–159.
• Painters of reality: the legacy of Leonardo and Caravaggio in Lombardy, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Foppa (see index)
• Gerard David: purity of vision in an age of transition, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Foppa (see index)