FOPPA, Vincenzo
(b. 1427/30, Brescia, d. 1515/16, Brescia)

St Augustine

1465-70
Wood panel
Castello Sforzesco, Milan

Together with a matching panel of St Theodore, this was originally part of a polyptych in the church of the Carmine in Pavia. The refined way in which he painted the saint's canonical dress brings to mind Provençal and Flemish painting.