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VINCENZO See also:FOPPA , See also:Italian painter, was See also:born near See also:Brescia . The See also:dates of his See also:birth and See also:death used to be given as 1400 and 1492; but there is now See also:good See also:reason for substituting 1427 and 1515 . He settled in See also:Pavia towards 1456, and was the See also:head of a Lombard school of See also:painting which subsisted up to the See also:advent of Leonardo da See also:Vinci . In 1489 he returned to Brescia . His contemporary reputation was very considerable, his merit in See also:perspective and foreshortening being recognized especially . Among his noted See also:works are a See also:fresco in the Brera See also:Gallery, See also:Milan, the " Martyrdom of St See also:Sebastian "; and a " Crucifixion " in the See also:Carrara gallery, See also:Bergamo, executed in 1455 . He worked much in Milan and in See also:Genoa, but many of his paintings are now lost . See C . J . Ffoulkes and R . Maiocchi, Vincenzo See also:Foppa (1910) . |
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