Giacobbe Giusti, VINCENZO FOPPA: Boy Reading Cicero, Wallace Collection, London
| Giacobbe Giusti, Vincenzo Foppa | |
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Virgin of the Book c. 1475, Milan
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| Born | Vincenzo Foppa c. 1427-30 Bagnolo Mella, Italy |
| Died | c. 1515-16 Brescia, Italy |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Notable work | Crucifixion Portinari Chapel The Young Cicero Reading Adoration of the Kings |
| Movement | Italian Renaissance |
Vincenzo Foppa (c. 1427 – c. 1515) was an Italian painter from the Renaissance period. While few of his works survive, he was an esteemed and influential painter during his time and is considered the preeminent leader of the Early Lombard School. He spent his career working for the Sforzafamily, Dukes of Milan, in Pavia, as well as various other patrons throughout Lombardy and Liguria. He lived and worked in his native Brescia during his later years.
Early life
Very little is known about the early life and training of Foppa. He was born in Bagnolo Mella, a small commune near the city of Brescia. At the time, there were few esteemed painters in the region, and the art scene in Brescia was lacking. It is therefore likely that Foppa had to seek artistic training elsewhere. Some of his earliest exposures to art were likely frescoes painted by Gentile da Fabriano in the Broletto Chapel in Brescia and the woven Annunciation by Jacopo Bellini. The latter artist was one of the strongest influences on him, and it is possible that Foppa was directly apprenticed to Bellini. He also may have been apprenticed to Bonifacio Bembo. Some historians suggest that Foppa may have had early training in Padua with Francesco Squarcione, though his earliest works are more stylistically reminiscent of Pisanello and Gentile da Fabriano. It is most likely that Foppa went to Verona for his training.[1]
Notable Works
- Madonna and Child with Angels, c.1450, Florence, Berenson Collection
- Crucifixion, 1456, Bergamo, Accademia Carrara
- St. Jerome Penitent, c.1460, Bergamo, Accademia Carrara
- Madonna of the Book, 1460-1468, Milan, Pinacoteca del Castello Sforzesco
- Madonna and Child, 1460-1470, Berlin, Staatliche Museen
- Boy Reading Cicero, c.1464, London, Wallace Collection
- Frescoes of the Portinari Chapel, 1464–1468, Milan, Basilica of Sant’Eustorgio
- Four Doctors of the Church
- Eight Busts of Saints
- Four Scenes from the Life of St. Peter Martyr :
- Cloud Miracle
- Miracle of the False Madonna
- Miracle of Narni
- Martyrdom of Saint Peter of Verona
- Annunciation
- Assumption of the Virgin
- St. Augustine, 1465-1470, Milan, Pinacoteca del Castello Sforzesco
- St. Theodore, 1465-1470, Milan, Pinacoteca del Castello Sforzesco
- St. Christopher, c.1470, Denver, Denver Art Museum
- Evangelists, 1477, Brescia, Carmelite Church of Santa Maria, Averoldi chapel
- Madonna and Child with an Angel, 1479-1480, Florence, Uffizi
- Bottigella Altarpiece, c.1486, Pavia, Pinacoteca Malaspina
- St. Francis receiving the stigmata and St. Giovanni Battista, 1488-1489, Milan, Pinacoteca del Castello Sforzesco
- Saint Sebastian, c.1489, Milan, Pinacoteca di Brera
- Madonna and Child in a Landscape, c.1490, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art
- Altarpiece, c.1490, Oratory of Our Lady of the Castle, Savona, with Ludovico Brea
- Madonna and Child, 1490-1495, Milan, Museo Poldi Pezzoli
- Martyrdom of St. Sebastian, c.1485, Milan, Pinacoteca del Castello Sforzesco
- Portrait of Giovanni Francesco Brivio, 1495, Milan, Museo Poldi Pezzoli
- Portrait of an Old Gentleman, 1495-1500, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art
- St. Anthony of Padua, 1495-1500, Washington, National Gallery of Art
- San Bernardino of Siena, 1495-1500, Washington, National Gallery of Art
- Altarpiece of Santa Maria delle Grazie, 1500-1510, Milan, Pinacoteca di Brera
- Adoration of the Magi, c.1500, London, National Gallery
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References
| Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article Foppa, Vincenzo. |
- ^ Jump up to:a b c d e f g h i j k l mFfoulkes, Constance J.; Maiocchi, Rodolfo (1909). Vincenzo Foppa of Brescia, Founder of the Lombard School. London: Lane.
- Jump up^ Jones, Howard; Kilpatrick, Ross (2007). « Cicero, Plutarch, and Vincenzo Foppa: Rethinking the Medici Bank Fresco (London, the Wallace Collection, Inv. P 538) ». International Journal of the Classical Tradition. 13 (3): 369–383.
- Jump up^ Waterhouse, E.K. (1950). « The Fresco by Foppa in the Wallace Collection ». The Burlington Magazine. 92 (567): 176–177.
- Jump up^ Bernstein, J. Gitlin (1981). « Science and Eschatology in the Portinari Chapel ». Arte Lombarda. 26 (60): 33–40.
- Jump up^ Urry, Serena (2004). « Technical Findings in Vincenzo Foppa’s: Adoration of the Child with Saint Benedict and Angels ». Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts. 78: 30–39.
- Jump up^ Dunkerton, Jill; Plazzotta, Carol (2001). « Vincenzo Foppa’s ‘Adoration of the Kings' ». National Gallery Technical Bulletin. 22: 18–28.
- Jump up^ Welch, Evelyn Samuels (1985). « New Documents for Vincenzo Foppa ». The Burlington Magazine. 127 (986): 296–300.
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