Rocco Zoppo

Summary

Rocco Zoppo, real name Giovan Maria di Bartolomeo Bacci di Belforte (floruit 1496–1508) was a Florentin painter, a pupil and collaborator of Pietro Perugino.

Rocco Zoppo
Born
Giovan Maria di Bartolomeo Bacci di Belforte
Died1508
Italy
NationalityItalian
EducationPietro Perugino
Known forPainting, Fresco
MovementItalian Renaissance

According to Giorgio Vasari in the Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, Zoppo worked with Perugino on the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican.[1] He was best known for his paintings of the Madonna and for his portraits.[2]

Notes edit

  1. ^ "Madonna and Child with Two Angels". Sotheby's. Retrieved 26 April 2017.
  2. ^ vasari, Giorgio (1568). Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects, Volume 2 (1851 ed.). H. G. Bohn. p. 325.