Marco D'oggiono Biography
Marco d'Oggiono (Oggiono, circa 1475 – Milan, circa 1530) was an Italian painter who was a pupil of Leonardo da Vinci. Documented as an independent artist in Leonardo da Vinci's workshop since 1490, Marco d'Oggiono executed in 1493-1494, together with Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio, the Grifi altarpiece with the Resurrection of Christ with Saints Leonardo and Lucia, for the oratory of San Leonardo, annexed to the Milanese church of San Giovanni sul Muro, probably painted under the supervision of the Maestro. Only the central panel remains of this altarpiece, an oil on panel measuring 230 x 183 centimetres, currently preserved in Berlin at the Staatliche Museen Gemäldegalerie. At the beginning of the new century he carried out a series of works, now partly lost (two monumental canvases and drawings for the choir stalls) for the cathedral of Savona commissioned by Cardinal Giuliano della Rovere, the future Pope Julius II (1501-1502 ); His lost canvases for the Milanese confraternity in Venice and the frescoes for the Milanese church of Santa Maria della Pace (today detached and placed in the Pinacoteca di Brera) also date back to these years, while the altarpiece with the Three Archangels (also 'it in Brera) and a signed polyptych, now in the Blois museum, must be dated to a later time (around 1516). In the following years his works appear closer to the pictorial developments of central Italy and the Romans in particular, perhaps the result of a stay in Rome (as in the frescoes of Santa Maria della Pace and in the Altarpiece of the Assumption today in Brera), joining accents of sensitive patheticism in the last years of his life as in the Ecstasy of the Magdalene today in Palazzo Vecchio in Florence. The works after the 1920s are characterized, according to the prevailing criticism, by a tired repetition of motifs from Leonardo's repertoire, with fewer and fewer innovative ideas. He died of the plague in 1524 in Milan, owner of an established workshop that had numerous students, and of substantial properties resulting from the painter's long and successful career.
