Vincenzo Foppa

Bagnolo Mella 1427 ca - 1515 ca

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Vincenzo Foppa,  (b. 1427/30, Brescia, Republic of Venice [now in Italy]—d. 1515/16), 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). He spent the middle of his life in Pavia in the service of the dukes of Milan, and until the arrival of Leonardo da Vinci he was the most influential painter in the Lombard region. From 1480 he became receptive to the Renaissance style, influenced by Donato Bramante, Andrea Mantegna, and Leonardo da ...

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