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FOPPA, VINCENZO

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 628 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FOPPA, VINCENZO , 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 Foppa (1910).

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