Marco Zoppo
Marco Zoppo (* 1433 in Cento, † February 19, 1478 in Venice, actually Marco di Antonio Ruggiero ) was an Italian painter and sculptor probably.
Name variants: il Zoppo, Marco Zoppo da Bologna, Zoppo di Squarcione
Little is known about the early work of Marco Zoppos. He grew up in Cento and engaged in apparently early on with the art. Due to infirmity, he was then given the stage name " il Zoppo " ( the Lame ), with whom he began to sign his works. With whom he learned his craft is not known. Besides painting, but he must also have dealt with early sculptural works. His first Provable work from 1452 is the repair and gilding of a statue of the "Madonna and Child" from the 14th century.
With the intention to evolve artistically he went the following year to Padua, where he was admitted in the workshop of Francesco Squarcione due to his talent in April 1454. There came Zoppo into contact with the works of Donatello and Andrea Mantegna, whose prowess impressed him that he was still in 1462 wrote in a letter: ". It would be gratifying to me, to make such things can exist side by his works "
Here he led on behalf Squarcione from a series of paintings and probably sculptural works. In order to secure his services in the long term, Zoppo was adopted in May 1455 from Francesco Squarcione. But in the same year he realized the evil machinations that brought him to the earned reward of his work. Annoyed let Zoppo the adoption in October 1455 released again and left Padua towards Venice. About his stay there is very little known, but, analyzes of the works of that time suggest that he now increasingly oriented to the artists working there Jacopo Bellini, Andrea del Castagno and Bartolomeo Vivarini. At the latest in 1462 he must have gone to Bologna, where he is documented for this time. The path led him probably about Ferrara, where he could study the present there works by Piero della Francesca. The influences can be detected from then on in his works.
No later than 1471, but probably already against 1466/67, Zoppo returned to Venice, where he could now be strengthened influence of Giovanni Bellini. Encouraged by his father Jacopo, Zoppo started now increasingly so, perform drawings, of which a large number have received. In his last years he still could as inspire Messina for the art of Antonello, whose work also exerted a lasting impression on his last works.
While a large number of paintings and drawings have survived to this day, is the suspected sculptural work Zoppos still in the dark.
Works (selection)
- Altenburg, Lindenau - Museum Maria with the child.
- The Virgin and Child with Saints John the Baptist, Francis of Assisi, Paul and Jerome. 1471
- The sacred Hieronymus.
- The Virgin and Child with Saints Jerome, John the Evangelist, Andrew and Augustine.
- St. Jerome in the Wilderness. 1470
- Crucifix.
- Enthroned Madonna with Child and Saints.
- Noli me tangere.
- Saint Sebastian in a mountainous landscape with Saint Jerome, Anthony Abbot and Christopher. to 1475 - 1478
- The body of Christ between two saints. about 1465
- A holy bishop. to 1468
- The shot at the corpse of his father. to 1462 ( fragment)
- St. Jerome in the Wilderness. to 1460 - 1470
- A son who refuses to fire on the corpse of his father, to 1462 (Fragment)
- St. Peter to 1468
- St. Paul, 1470
- The Virgin and Child, angels, 1455
- The dead Christ supported by two angels ( Pietà ), 1471
- Head of John the Baptist. ( attributed to )
- Thorn Crowned Christ under an arch.
- Maria with the child, to 1467/68 (attributed )
- St. Peter to 1468
- Enthroned Madonna and Child adored by two angels and a lily
- Four angels carrying the body of Christ ( auctioned on 30 January 1998 at Sotheby's in New York)
- Maria with the child (attributed - March 17, 2005 auction at nail in Stuttgart)