- cia; Birth of Virgin, S. Trinità; Madonna,
Ascension, Pieve di Cento.—Malvasia, i. 173; Lanzi, iii. 42; Ch. Blanc, École bolonaise; Gualandi, Guida, 138, 140, 166.
FONTANA, PROSPERO, born in Bologna
in 1512, died in Rome in 1597. Bolognese
school, pupil of Innocenzo da Imola;
went to France to aid Primaticcio at
Fontainebleau, but was taken ill and had to
return. Painted chiefly in Bologna and in
Rome. He was devoted to pleasure, and
his many (chiefly historical) works are executed
with little care. His best pictures are
his portraits. Among his works are: Decorations
in Vigna di Papa Giulio near
Rome; Altarpiece, S. Salvatore, Bologna;
Entombment, Bologna Gallery; Charity of
S. Alexis, S. Giacomo Maggiore, Bologna;
Holy Family, Dresden Gallery; Annunciation,
Brera, Milan; Visitation, Estense Gallery,
Modena.—Malvasia, i. 173; Lanzi, iii.
42; Ch. Blanc, École bolonaise; Vasari, ed.
Le Mon., ix. 95; xii. 111; xiii. 5, 183.
FONTANA, ROBERTO, born in Milan in
1844. Genre painter, pupil of Milan Academy.
Medal, Milan, 1876. Works: Scene
in Robert le Diable; Wooing; Æsop relating
his Fables (1876).
FONTENAY, ALEXIS DALIGÉ DE,
born in Paris, April 29, 1813. Landscape
painter, pupil of Watelet and Hersent. Has
won a good reputation as a faithful delineator
of nature. Medals: 3d class, 1841;
2d class, 1844, 1861, and 1863. Works:
View on the Grimsel Road (1841); View on
Road to the Maladetta, Pyrenees (1843),
Marseilles Museum; Environs of Luz (1844);
Great Sulphur Mine (1845); Fort Royal
(1847); Bernese Oberland (1848); Road
from Bastia to Ajaccio (1852); Isle of Elba
(1852), Montauban Museum; Farm and
Castle (1855), Nantes Museum; Valley of
Lauterbrunnen (1857), Montpellier Museum;
Gulf of Ajaccio (1859), Strassburg Museum;
Wetterhorn and Grindelwald (1861); Castle
of Unspunnen (1863), Saint-Quentin Museum;
View in Bernese Oberland, Gallery at
Monaye (1863); View near Unterseen, Castle
of Gaillard (1864), Lisieux Museum;
Seine near Ruins of the Castle of Tancarville,
Top of the Sulphur Mine in Guadaloupe
(1865); Village of Unterseen, Church
of St. Bernard de Comminges (1866); Village
of Vezillon, High Tide between Havre
and Honfleur (1868), Laval Museum; Seine
between Rouen and Havre (1869); View in
Valley of the Touque (1870); Road from
Meyringen to Goutan (1872); Farm near
Rouen (1874); Seine at Les Andelys (1875);
Ruins of Castle in Valley of Lauterbrunnen
(1876); Farm on Heights of Avranches(1877);
Villiers (1878); Farm near Pontorson, Pic
du Midi near Pau (1879); Coast of Honfleur,
Farm in Normandy (1880); Farm in Picardy,
View near Villiers-sur-Mer (1882);
Squall on the Coast of Normandy, Cliffs at
Puy (1883); Cliffs near Château of Dieppe
(1884); Last Judgment, Entrance to Dieppe
(1885).
FONVILLE, HORACE, born at Lyons in
1832. Landscape painter, pupil of his
father and of Appian. Works: Château de
la Pape near Lyons (1833); View of Lyons
(1840); Landscape in the Haut-Bugey (1864);
At Rossillon, Ain (1870); Road in Mountains
of Haut-Bugey (1874), Luxembourg
Museum; Ain River at Neuville (1876);
Souvenir of Virieux-le-Grand (1877); Landscape
in Bugey (1879).
FOPPA, VINCENZO, the elder, born at
Foppa, province of Pavia, died in Brescia in
1492. Lombard school; a disciple probably
of Squarcione, but nothing known of him
before his engagement in Milan in 1456,
when he called himself a citizen of Brescia.
In 1461 he was in Pavia, where he painted
in 1462 frescos in the Carmine, and in 1465
a chapel in the Certosa. At a later date he
worked in Savona and in Brescia. His
earlier pictures show the prominent characteristics
of the Paduan school, but in the
course of years he shook off Mantegnesque
peculiarities and gained the mastery which
comes from long practice. Among his best
extant works are the St. Sebastian, Brera,
Milan, and the altarpiece in six panels in S.
