Zoppo, Marco

Zoppo, Marco (b Cento, nr. Bologna, c.1432; d Venice ?1478).
Italian painter of religious subjects. He is first documented in 1455, when he was living in Padua as the adopted son of his teacher Squarcione. However, like Mantegna a few years earlier, Zoppo realized he was being exploited by Squarcione, and later in 1455 he moved to Venice. He spent most of his brief career there and in Bologna (he signed himself Bononensis—‘Bolognese’). His work includes altarpieces and small devotional pictures, painted in a wiry style reflecting the influence of Mantegna, softened by that of Giovanni Bellini. Two of his paintings are in the National Gallery, London. A substantial number of his drawings survive.