MELOZZO DA FORLÌ

Melozzo da Forlì (1438 – 1494), was called to Rome in three different occasions.
The first time (1464 ), in the Basilica of San Marco he painted San Marco Pope.

Returning to Rome in 1475 he was appointed Pictor papalis under Sixtus IV (1475). At this time in Santa Maria sopra Minerva painted the Blessing Christ between two angels and the Annunciation in the Pantheon.

In 1480 he painted the apse of the Holy Apostles, with the Blessing Christ and the Musician Angels.

When Pope Sixtus IV died in 1484, Melozzo left Rome to return in 1489, when he produced the cartoons for the great mosaic in the vault of the chapel of St. Helena in Santa Croce in Gerusalemme.

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