DOI Kapitel:
Painters, Sculptors, Architects, Engravers, and their Works
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.61295#0303
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and in her historical subjects, her manner is clever and spirited.
Some of her works are in the churches of Bologna.
Foppa, Vincenzo, born at Foppa, territory of Milan. Nothing
positive is known of him until 1456 ; died 1492. It is said that he
was a pupil of Squarcione, and some of his works would confirm this.
He was an artist of more than usual merit, and his later pictures are
much better than his earlier ones. His outlines were well drawn, his
faces expressive, and his color good and well blended. He lived at
Brescia in his youth and returned there in his old age, and was
buried in the ch. of S. Barnaba. He also resided at Pavia, and
painted at Milan and Savona. In the Brera there is a S. Sebastian,
taken from the ch. of S. Maria di Brera, and the only one remaining
of a whole cycle which he painted in that church. It is called his chef-
d'aeuvre. His works are also in the Carrara Acad., Bergamo; in S.
Maria di Castello, Savona; in the National Gall.; and in different
places in Brescia.
Foppa, Vincenzo, the Younger. Very little is known of him.
He was a subordinate Brescian artist of the 16th century. Son and
probably pupil of the preceding. The works attributed to him are
in several churches of Brescia, in the Scuola Elementaria, and in
the Tosi Gall.
Forli, Melozzo da, born at Forli; died 1494. Count Girolamo
Riario, nephew of Pope Sixtus IV., governed Forli, and through his
influence Melozzo went to Rome, where he was appointed painter to
the Pope, and received the honor of knighthood. Only small por-
tions of his works remain, but they prove him to have been a won-
derful painter. His principal work was the “ Ascension of Christ,”
in the ch. S. Apostoli. Portions of this have been removed, and are
preserved in the sacristy of S. Peter’s, the Quirinal Pal., and in the
Lateran. Grimm says, “ I can place nothing of the same date by the
side of these figures as regards boldness of composition. For an im-
agination, before which human forms hovered in such bold foreshorten-
ing, and a hand such as the painter possessed who could sketch so
freely and firmly what his mind perceived, I find combined in no
painter hitherto.” The foreshortening or painting of figures in per-
spective, on vaults and ceilings, was his invention and was perfected
a half century later by Correggio. His draperies were somewhat form-
less; his principal figures grand; and his cherubs and angels, graceful
and beautiful. In the Vatican there is a picture by him of Sixtus IV.,
surrounded by his nephews. Melozzo da Forli wg,s a very important
artist, but his place in the history of art is small, on account of the
paucity of his existing works.
Forment, Damian, born at Valencia; died 1533. He went to
Italy to study, and it is supposed that he formed his style after the
works of Donatello. In 1511 he executed a work at Zaragoza,
which is considered one of the finest monuments in Aratron. It is an
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and in her historical subjects, her manner is clever and spirited.
Some of her works are in the churches of Bologna.
Foppa, Vincenzo, born at Foppa, territory of Milan. Nothing
positive is known of him until 1456 ; died 1492. It is said that he
was a pupil of Squarcione, and some of his works would confirm this.
He was an artist of more than usual merit, and his later pictures are
much better than his earlier ones. His outlines were well drawn, his
faces expressive, and his color good and well blended. He lived at
Brescia in his youth and returned there in his old age, and was
buried in the ch. of S. Barnaba. He also resided at Pavia, and
painted at Milan and Savona. In the Brera there is a S. Sebastian,
taken from the ch. of S. Maria di Brera, and the only one remaining
of a whole cycle which he painted in that church. It is called his chef-
d'aeuvre. His works are also in the Carrara Acad., Bergamo; in S.
Maria di Castello, Savona; in the National Gall.; and in different
places in Brescia.
Foppa, Vincenzo, the Younger. Very little is known of him.
He was a subordinate Brescian artist of the 16th century. Son and
probably pupil of the preceding. The works attributed to him are
in several churches of Brescia, in the Scuola Elementaria, and in
the Tosi Gall.
Forli, Melozzo da, born at Forli; died 1494. Count Girolamo
Riario, nephew of Pope Sixtus IV., governed Forli, and through his
influence Melozzo went to Rome, where he was appointed painter to
the Pope, and received the honor of knighthood. Only small por-
tions of his works remain, but they prove him to have been a won-
derful painter. His principal work was the “ Ascension of Christ,”
in the ch. S. Apostoli. Portions of this have been removed, and are
preserved in the sacristy of S. Peter’s, the Quirinal Pal., and in the
Lateran. Grimm says, “ I can place nothing of the same date by the
side of these figures as regards boldness of composition. For an im-
agination, before which human forms hovered in such bold foreshorten-
ing, and a hand such as the painter possessed who could sketch so
freely and firmly what his mind perceived, I find combined in no
painter hitherto.” The foreshortening or painting of figures in per-
spective, on vaults and ceilings, was his invention and was perfected
a half century later by Correggio. His draperies were somewhat form-
less; his principal figures grand; and his cherubs and angels, graceful
and beautiful. In the Vatican there is a picture by him of Sixtus IV.,
surrounded by his nephews. Melozzo da Forli wg,s a very important
artist, but his place in the history of art is small, on account of the
paucity of his existing works.
Forment, Damian, born at Valencia; died 1533. He went to
Italy to study, and it is supposed that he formed his style after the
works of Donatello. In 1511 he executed a work at Zaragoza,
which is considered one of the finest monuments in Aratron. It is an