Marco Zoppo (1433 – 19 February 1498) was an Italian painter of the

Renaissance The Renaissance ( , ) , from , with the same meanings. is a period in European history marking the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity and covering the 15th and 16th centuries, characterized by an effort to revive and surpass ideas ...

period, active mainly in

Bologna Bologna (, , ; egl, label= Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different nat ...

. He was born in

Cento The Middle East Treaty Organization (METO), also known as the Baghdad Pact and subsequently known as the Central Treaty Organization (CENTO), was a military alliance of the Cold War. It was formed in 24 February 1955 by Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Turk ...

. He was a pupil of the painter Lippo Dalmasio then for a few years with

Francesco Squarcione Francesco Squarcione (''c.'' 1395 – after 1468) was an Italian artist from Padua. His pupils included Andrea Mantegna (with whom he had many legal battles), Cosimo Tura and Carlo Crivelli. There are only two works signed by him: the ''Mad ...

around 1455. He was a contemporary of

Andrea Mantegna Andrea Mantegna (, , ; September 13, 1506) was an Italian painter, a student of Roman archeology, and son-in-law of Jacopo Bellini. Like other artists of the time, Mantegna experimented with perspective, e.g. by lowering the horizon in order ...

. He painted a number of variations of the ''Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saints'' while he was in Bologna.

Francesco Francia __NOTOC__ Francesco Francia, whose real name was Francesco Raibolini (1447 – 5 January 1517) was an Italian painter, goldsmith, and medallist from Bologna, who was also director of the city mint.Levinson:492 He may have trained with Marco Zo ...

was one of his pupils. He died in

Venice Venice ( ; it, Venezia ; vec, Venesia or ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto Regions of Italy, region. It is built on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400 ...

to where he had left after working for Squarcione.

List of works

*'' Madonna del Latte'' (1453-1455)

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, Paris *''Resurrezione'',

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, New York City *''Madonna col Bambino'',

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, Washington D.C. *''San Pietro'', National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. *''Madonna col Bambino'', National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. *''Sant'Agostino'',

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, London *''Cristo morto sostenuto da santi'', National Gallery, London *''Cristo morto sostenuto da angeli e da san Giacomo'',

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, 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 The Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum (in Spanish, the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza (), named after its founder), or simply the Thyssen, is an art museum in Madrid, Spain, located near the Prado Museum on one of the city's main boulevards. I ...

, Madrid *''Madonna in trono e santi'', (1471) Gemäldegalerie, Berlin *''Il Crocifisso di Cesena'', Cesena, Private collection *"Saint Jerome in Penitence", Baltimore, Walters Art Museumhttps://art.thewalters.org/detail/13974/saint-jerome-in-penitence/

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