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

APPENDIX II, A 293
To Vinccnzo of Brescia, painter at Pavia. We command that on receipt of this
you are to come to us here, bringing with you that picture which you received from
Papi our servant and which was to serve as your model in malting a representation of
Our Lady for us, whether your own is finished or not ; because we desire to employ
you in other works for us. Therefore come at once with the said picture.
ID.
Payment to Foppa for paintings in thegreatCloister of the Certosa, near Pavia.
April 9, 1465, Pavia (Certosa).
Magistro Vincentio de Fopa, pictori, pro certis prophetis factis pro claustro magno
at certis aliis figuris, in summa librarum 2,
Registro di spese, fol. 71, a. 1463-66.
Caffi in Arch. Star. Lomb., 1878, p. 99, note 19.
Beltrami, Certosa di Pavia, Milano, 1895, p. 62.
Chap. Ill, p. 70.
II. The Duke of Milan to the Commissioners of the building of S. Maria delle
Grazie at Monza.
May 12,
1466, Milan.
Dux Mediolani, etc. Deputatis Fabrice Ecclesie Sancte Marie de gratiis,
Modoetie.
Vene 11 da voi el presente exhibitore, mandato da noi, Maestro Vincentio, quale
dipintore de pingere la maesta faciamo fare ad Sancta Maria dalle gratie \\. Siamo
contenti et volimo li dagati ducati vinti doro : et lui ne ha promisso di fornire dicta
maesta ad tutte sue spese senza domandare piu denari sino a tanto che lui non habia
fornita tutta dicta opera, siche exeguireti quanto de sopra e dicto, expedindolo
prestissimo. Mediolani, 12 Maij, 1466.
Arch, di St. Mil., Miss, fascicoli staccati, f. 246.
Caffi, Arch. Stor. Lomb., 1878, p. 105 ; Arte, 1900, 145.
Chap. Ill, p. 72.
Master Vincenzo, the bearer of this letter sent by us, is coming to you, which
painter is to execute the Majestas which we are having painted in your Church of
S. Maria delle Grazie. It is our will and desire that you pay him twenty gold ducats
and he undertakes to furnish the said work at his own expense and to ask for no further
remuneration until the whole is completed. Therefore you are to see to all that is
herein set forth without delay.
12. Letter from Foppa to Pigello Portinari asking for a recommendation to the
Duchess Bianca Maria in order that he may be enabled to buy property at Pavia,
although he has not as yet acquired the rights of citizenship.
June 22, 1467, Pavia.
Magnifico Miser Pigello. lo mando da voi Bartolomeo mio cogniato. Prego la
Magnificentia Vostra me voglia far havere una littera da la Signoria de Madona de