Marco d'Oggiono (c. 1470 – c. 1549) was an

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and a chief pupil of

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, many of whose works he copied.Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Marco D'Oggione", ''

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'' (New York: Robert Appleton Company).

Biography and works

He was born at

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near

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. Little is known of his life — not even the date of his important series of

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es painted for the church of

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in Milan. He probably died in Milan. Luigi Lanzi gave 1530 as the date of his death, but various writers in Milan say it took place in 1540, and now the best accepted date is 1549. Oggiono2

He was a hard-working artist, but his work has since been criticized by some for being wanting in vivacity of feeling and purity of drawing, while, in his composition, it has been well said that "intensity of color does duty for intensity of sentiment". He copied Leonardo's ''

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'' repeatedly, and one of his best copies is in the possession of the

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. The Hungarian art critic Paul George Konody, in examining the '' Isleworth Mona Lisa'', wrote of that painting: His two most notable pictures — one in the

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(representing St. Michael), and the other in the private gallery of the Bonomi family (representing the Madonna) — are signed with his name in Latin, "Marcus". Other works by d'Oggiono can be seen at Berlin, Paris, St. Petersburg and Turin, the one in Russia being a clever copy of the ''Last Supper'' by Leonardo. The ''Catholic Encyclopedia'' said of d'Oggiono, " cannot be regarded as an important artist, or even a very good copyist, but in his pictures the sky and mountains and the distant landscapes are always worthy of consideration, and in these we probably get the painter's best original work".

References

Sources

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Marco D'Oggione at New Advent''Leonardo da Vinci, Master Draftsman''
exhibition catalog fully online as PDF from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which contains material on Marco d'Oggiono (see index)

External links

{{Authority control 1470s births 1540s deaths People from the Metropolitan City of Milan 15th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 16th-century Italian painters Painters from Milan Italian Renaissance painters Catholic painters Pupils and followers of Leonardo da Vinci