Vincenzo Foppa

FOPPA, VINCENZO Italian painter, was born near Brescia. He settled in Pavia towards 1456, and was the head of a Lombard school of painting which subsisted up to the advent of Leonardo da Vinci. In 1489 he returned to Brescia. Among his noted works are a fresco in the Brera Gallery, Milan, the "Martyrdom of St. Sebastian" ; and a "Crucifixion" in the Carrara gallery, Bergamo, executed in 1455. He worked much in Milan and in Genoa.

See C. J. Ffoulkes and R. Maiocchi, Vincenzo Foppa (191o).

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