Rocco Zoppo Explained

Rocco Zoppo
Birth Name:Giovan Maria di Bartolomeo Bacci di Belforte
Death Date:1508
Death Place:Italy
Nationality:Italian
Field:Painting, Fresco
Training:Pietro Perugino
Movement:Italian Renaissance

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.

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 and References

  1. Web site: Madonna and Child with Two Angels. Sotheby's. 26 April 2017.
  2. Book: vasari. Giorgio. Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects, Volume 2. 1568. H. G. Bohn. 325. 1851.