Vincenzo Foppa

Vincenzo Foppa (c. 1427 Bagnolo Mella, † 1516 in Brescia) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance.

Life

Foppa was born in Brescia, learned in Padua and worked from 1456 to 1490 mainly in Pavia with occasional stays in Milan, Genoa and Savona. Foppas early work reveals the influence of Jacopo Bellini, but he then approached the style of his contemporary Andrea Mantegna to who represented the main direction of the then Italian painting. Foppa worked a lot for the Dukes of Milan. He was considered the founder of the Milanese school, which dominated the northern Italian art with its sense of color and their restraint until it was changed by Leonardo da Vinci.

Gallery

Francesco Brivio, Museo Poldo Pezzoli, Milan

Mary with the Child, 1464-1468, Museo Civico d' Arte Antica, Castello Sforzesco, Milan

Mary polyptych, San Maria di Castello, Savona

St. Sebastian, Brera Art Gallery

Young Cicero Reading, Wallace Collection