Vincenzo Foppa of Brescia, founder of the Lombard school, his life ...

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Chap. I. PAINTERS AT BRESCIA EARLY XV CENTURY 3
from Bergamo, Milan, and Cremona.' The most important of them all, so
far as we can judge, must have been Enrico da Milano,^ son of a painter
Jacobino, who, in the Deliberations of the Special Council of Brescia of
March 4, 1449, is spoken of as having been long resident in the city where he
diligently practised his art,' and is further described as one of good repute
and character and well skilled in the art of painting/ Here, then, we have
evidence of an artist of some standing, capable, it is to be assumed, of
training others, though no works of his have been preserved to testify to his
merits/ In the school of Jacopo and Enrico da Milano it is possible that the
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In the Estimi and Indexes of the Custodie Notturne of these years we find the
following painters registered as living in different quarters of the city :
I. S. Faustini.
Christophorus de Mediolano, pintor, 1438.
III. S. Faustini.
Simoninus de Valle S. Martini, pintor, 1438.
VI. S. Faustini.
Jacobinus de Mediolano, pintor, 1430, 1434.
VII. S. Faustini.
Andreas de Napolis, pictor, 1439.
Antonius de Napolis, pictor, 1439.
Citadella.
Andreas de Bergamo, pictor, 1438.
Andreas de Cremona, pictor, 1434, 1442, 1459.
I. S. Joannis.
Christophorus de Mediolano, 1438.
II.
S. Joannis.
M''. Aricus de Alemania, pintor, mortuus peste 1439.
Jacobinus pintor de Mediolano, 1438, 1442.
Zilianus Mri. Jacobini, 1438, 1469, pictor.
Arichus Jacobini, 1438, 1459, pictor.
Bartholomeus de Bergamo, pintor, mortuus peste 1439.
Heredes quondam Joannis de Cortexijs pictoris 1430, 1434.
IV.
S. Joannis.
Jacopus de Mediolano pictor, mortuus peste 1439.
* See under II. S. Joannis : Arichus Jacobini.
' "Quod multo tempore habitavit Brixie et artem depingendi fideliter exercuit"
(Prov., etc., Vol. 495).
* " Persona bone conditionis et fame et valde peritus in arte depingendi" (ibid.),
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Among early frescoes at Brescia the authors of which still await identification, may
be mentioned the Descent of the Holy Ghost and Coronation of the Virgin over the first
altar on the right in the Church of the Carmine, and the frescoes in a small chapel on the
north side of S. Giovanni Evangelista, which are now in process of being recovered
from whitewash.