Marco Zoppo

Marco Zoppo (1433–February 19, 1498) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in Bologna.

Image of Saint Paul

He was born in Cento.[1] He was a pupil of the painter Lippo Dalmasio then for a few years with Francesco Squarcione around 1455. He was a contemporary of Andrea Mantegna. He painted a number of variations of the Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saints while he was in Bologna. Francesco Francia was one of his pupils. He died in Venice to where he had left after working for Squarcione.

List of works

• Madonna del Latte (1453-1455) Louvre, Paris
• Resurrezione, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
• Madonna col Bambino, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
• San Pietro, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
• Madonna col Bambino, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
• Sant'Agostino, National Gallery, London
• Cristo morto sostenuto da santi, National Gallery, London
• Cristo morto sostenuto da angeli e da san Giacomo, British Museum, London
• Madonna col Bambino e due putti, British Museum, London
• Cristo deposto sorretto dagli angeli, San Giovanni Battista, Pesaro
• San Girolamo nella selva, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
• Madonna in trono e santi, (1471) Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
• Il Crocifisso di Cesena, Cesena, Private collection

External links

1. Hugo Chapman, Padua in the 1450s: Marco Zoppo and His Contemporaries, 1998.

• Farquhar, Maria (1855). Ralph Nicholson Wornum (ed.). Biographical catalogue of the principal Italian painters. Woodfall & Kinder, Angel Court, Skinner Street, London; Digitized by Googlebooks from Oxford University copy on Jun 27, 2006. p. 234.
• Grove Art Encyclopedia excerpt