. Dictionary of painters and engravers. inter highly skilled inhis art. Having completed the ceiling of thechapel he did not fulfil his contract to paint thewalls also, but returned to Pavia, where a work(now lost) in the church of the Carmine bore hissignature and the date, May 1462. In these yearshe executed many works in Milan and its neigh-bourhood : episodes from the history of Trajanand decorative paintings (c. ? 1463) in the MediciBank, the palace given by Francesco Sforza toCosimo de Medici, and rebuilt and decorated on ascale of great magnificence under the direction ofPigello Portina
. Dictionary of painters and engravers. inter highly skilled inhis art. Having completed the ceiling of thechapel he did not fulfil his contract to paint thewalls also, but returned to Pavia, where a work(now lost) in the church of the Carmine bore hissignature and the date, May 1462. In these yearshe executed many works in Milan and its neigh-bourhood : episodes from the history of Trajanand decorative paintings (c. ? 1463) in the MediciBank, the palace given by Francesco Sforza toCosimo de Medici, and rebuilt and decorated on ascale of great magnificence under the direction ofPigello Portinari, the first Governor of the Bank ;paintings in the principal colonnade of the greathospital at Milan (? after 1463), representing itsfoundation by Francesco Sforza, and other sub-jects ; figures of prophets in one of the cloistersof the Certosa of Pavia (1465), and an altar-piecefor the church of S. M. delle Grazie at Monza,(1466), all of which have perished. Foppasnamehas also been connected with the frescoes in the VINCRNZO I-OP PA. HiiHfsldH^t pkoto\ THK AlJORATION OF TH1-: MAtW [Natiatiat GalUrj PA1NTEU8 AND ENURAVEltS. c)i*p(cl have l>reii itiHouverod, and tliepresent anpect of the freeouea, which were coveredwitli whittwaiih in tlie 17th century, from whiclitliey were only freed in 1873, dot-H not juBtifytheir atlnhiition to Fopi>a willi any 14(jy to ohliiin employ-ment iu tlie Ciiinpo Sitnto at Pisa, hut failingin this, pruhahly returned to Genoa, where welind him in 1471 receiving payment for furtherwork in the chapel uf SL John liaptiiit. After1474 he was actively employed at Pavia with otherpainters upon the great altar-piece f
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