Jacopino Scipioni (c.1470 – 1532) was an Italian painter of the late 15th century active in
Bergamo
Bergamo (; lmo, Bèrghem ; from the proto- Germanic elements *''berg +*heim'', the "mountain home") is a city in the alpine Lombardy region of northern Italy, approximately northeast of Milan, and about from Switzerland, the alpine lakes Como ...
.
He was born in
Averara, but few details are known of his life. He began painting in the studio of his brother
Battista Scipioni. In 1492, the painted the ceiling of the sacristy of
Santa Maria Maggiore
The Basilica of Saint Mary Major ( it, Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore, ; la, Basilica Sanctae Mariae Maioris), or church of Santa Maria Maggiore, is a Major papal basilica as well as one of the Seven Pilgrim Churches of Rome and the larges ...
in Bergamo. With Jacopino painting figures. In 1494, he frescoed the church, now razed, of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Bergamo, with the story of St Francis of Assisi. He also worked for the church of
San Stefano, and the chapel of San Marco in the convent of Sant'Agostino, and the church of San Domenico al Fortino.
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References
1470 births
1532 deaths
15th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
16th-century Italian painters
Painters from Bergamo
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