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Biography. Foppa's career began and ended in Brescia, but it unfolded in a number of centers with quite different artistic orientation--Pavia, Genoa, and Milan--where he absorbed all the most up-to-date developments in local painting.
Vincenzo Foppa (c. 1427–1430 – c. 1515–1516) was an Italian painter from the Renaissance period. While few of his works survive, he was an esteemed and influential painter during his time and is considered the preeminent leader of the Early Lombard School.
Vincenzo Foppa; around 1430-1515, Brescia) is an Italian artist, founder of the Lombard school of painting. One of the largest works are the frescoes in the Portinari chapel in the Church of Eustorgio in Milan. The leading artist of Lombardy before the arrival of Leonardo da Vinci in Milan.
Vincenzo Foppa (born 1427/30, Brescia, Republic of Venice [now in Italy]—died 1515/16) was an Italian painter, leading figure in 15th-century Lombard art, and an artist of exceptional integrity and power. His earliest dated work is a dramatic painting of the “Three Crosses” (1456).
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Vincenzo Foppa At the end of their long journey, three magnificently dressed kings offer gifts to the Christ Child, who is seated on the Virgin’s lap. Behind them, their retinue winds its way through the hilly landscape from Jerusalem, visible on a distant hilltop.
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Foppa was a Renaissance painter from Northern Italy; an elderly contemporary of Leonardo da Vinci (1452 – 1519). Born at Bagnolo Mella, near Brescia in the Republic of Venice, he settled in Pavia around 1456, serving the dukes of Milan and emerging as one of the most prominent Lombardy painters, eventually returning to Brescia in 1489.
