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VINCENZO FOPPA

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 628 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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VINCENZO

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

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