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

412 VINCENZO FOPPA
Meliis, Giacomino son of Giovanni de, painter
at Pavia, mentioned in connection with
Foppa, 27, 256, 289 (Doc. No. 2)
Melzi Library, Milan (now owned by Marchese
Soragna), MSS. in, 144 note 3, 355
Memmo, Bishop of Verona, donor of Jacopo
Bellini's fresco in the Cathedral, Verona, of
1436, 1 1 note 2
Mercanzia, The, at Brescia, its relation to the
present Camera di Commercio, 235 and note 2
Merrifield, Mrs., 355 (2)
Meyer, A. G. , 39 note 2, 43 note 2, 48 note 3,
58 note 3, 367
Mezzabarba, Giovanni, painter of Pavia, 21
Marco, painter of Pavia working at
Genoa, 21
S. Michele, Pavia, 21 note 3, 256, 384
Michelino da Pavia (Michelino da Besozzo), 22
note 4, 23 note i, 381, 389, 390
Michelozzi, Michelozzo, 42, 43 note 2, 50, 58,
59, 281 note I, 380, 381, 388
Michiel, Marcantonio. See Anonimo
Miglio, Francesco, and the Loggetta, Brescia,
184
Milan (city of) : Archives, 354, 355
Broletto, Palazzo del, work by Bramantino
painted for, 143, 253 note 6, 382, 388
Castello di Porta Giovia (Castello Sforzesco),
19, 45 note i, 94 note i, iod note i,
388
Cappella Ducale di S. Donato, lower
chapel, frescoes of, valued by Foppa and
three other masters, 80 notes i and 5
painters in, 75, 76, 80 notes 1-5,
81
of,
Sala della Balla, proposed decoration
92, 93 and note i
Castello Museum, 43 notes 2 and 3, 382
Cathedral, 19 and note 6, 20, 22 note 4,
41, 70 note I, 381, 387
Chapel of St. Peter Martyr. See Portinari
Chapel
Churches of, 381, 382, 387. See under
names of Saints
Hospital, 25, 38-42
date of foundation, 39 and note i
Foppa's frescoes in, subjects and
probable position of, 40
late paintings on canvas preserved
there, copies of earlier works (?), 42 and
note 2
Milan, Medici Bank (destroyed), gift of Francesco
Sforza to Cosimo de' Medici, 1455, 25,
42-56, 388
architect unknown, Michelozzo's cooperation
not proved, 42, 43 notes 2 and 3,
59 note 3
dates when building was probably
finished and frescoes were begun, 45
door and terra-cotta fragments of,
now Castello Museum, 43 note 3, 54, 382
Filarete's description of building, 45
Foppa's frescoes, loggia left of entrance,
ib., 46, 48, 3S8
— later series on parapet of upper
loggia, 54 and note 2, 55 and note i, 56, 388
— last remaining fragment of, now
Hertford House, erroneous description of
subject, 50-56
other frescoes (before 1464) mentioned
by Filarete, 50, 52 note 4, 55 note i,
56, 388
sale of palace by Lorenzo de' Medici
in 1484, 55
Sala Capitolare (destroyed), work executed
there by Vincenzo da Brescia and
Cesare Cesariano in 1513, 286, 388. See
also Nava
Milan, citizenship of, and Foppa, 139
collections. See Index of Places, pp. 382,
383
French occupation of the Duchy of, 106,
144 note I
historical notices of, 18, 19, 20
Milan, school of,
before the advent of Foppa,
21 note 2, 22 and note, 23, 24
Milanese origin of Foppa, theory refuted, 277
and note 3, 278
school, xi, 120, 202, 207, 213 note 7, 233
note 2, 241, 242, 248, 255
writers on Foppa's treatise, 244
Milanesi,G.,25 note 2, 43 note 2 (articles by), 367
Mirabella, Tower of, Brescia, 16
Mirabello, Cascina, nearMilan, 68 and note 2, 388
Mireo, Auberto, 135 note i,
353
Mocenigo, Pietro, Doge of Venice, 115, 116
Modroni, Marchese, and Portinari Chapel in
1654, 70
Moiraghi, Don Pietro, 16 and note 3, 20 note
4, 22 note I, 27 and note 2, 30 and note i,
31, 33 and note 3, 67 note 2, 71 and note 3,
77 note 2, 367 ; App. H, Nos. 2, 12, 13, 15