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| Marcello Fogolino Madonna and Child enthroned with Job and St Gothard ca. 1505-1508 oil on canvas Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan |
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| Marcello Fogolino Madonna and Child enthroned with St Catherine, St Francis of Assisi, St John the Baptist, St John the Evangelist, St Anthony of Padua, Mary Magdalen ca. 1510-20 oil on canvas Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
"Marcello Fogolino was from the Friuli, but since he worked mostly elsewhere he came to reflect the Pordenone fashion only incompletely. In Vicenza, the chief locus of his earlier career, he was a dutiful follower of the local taste for the retardataire mode of Bartolomeo Montagna. But returned to work in the Friuli, apparently in 1520 or 1521, Fogolino was subject at once to the effect of Pordenone's style, and his quick conversion of his retardataire manner to a modern one would be surprising if this were, as we have seen, not so much the general case in the Friuli at the time. . . . Banished from the Venetian territory in 1527 for complicity in a murder, Fogolino settled at Trento. There, with further flexibility, he soon assimilated the manner that Girolamo Romanino and the Dossi had exemplified in their decoration of the Castel Buonconsiglio, on which Fogolino also was engaged. He had a considerable practice as a frescante after this, exploiting what he had learned of modern decorators' style in the painting of palaces and villas in the Tridentine region. Our last record of him is in Trento, in 1548."
– S.J. Freedberg from Painting in Italy - 1500 to 1600 in the Pelican History of Art series (London, 1971)
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| attributed to Marcello Fogolino Adoration of the Magi ca. 1510 oil on panel Harvard Art Museums |
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| Marcello Fogolino The True Son refusing to shoot an Arrow at his Father's Body ca. 1530-40 drawing Morgan Library, New York |
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| Marcello Fogolino The Annunciation (copy of Albrecht Dürer Small Passion woodcut of 1511) ca. 1530-40 drawing Morgan Library, New York |
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| Marcello Fogolino Man on Horseback before 1548 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Marcello Fogolino Head of a Young Woman before 1548 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Marcello Fogolino Supper at Emmaus before 1548 drawing Morgan Library, New York |
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| attributed to Marcello Fogolino Miracle of St John the Evangelist before 1548 drawing British Museum |
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| Marcello Fogolino Mother and Child with Classical Architecture ca. 1529-33 engraving Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Marcello Fogolino Boy holding down a Ram before 1548 engraving British Museum |
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| Marcello Fogolino Ornamental Frieze (detail) before 1548 fresco Palazzo Firmian, Trento |
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| Marcello Fogolino Music Makers ca. 1527-30 fresco Castello del Buonconsiglio, Trento |
"Marcello Fogolino was a remarkable artist whose fame as a painter was partially eclipsed by his private affairs. His conviction for the murder of a barber, apparently carried out together with his brother, his banishment, his spying activities in favour of the Venetian Republic and the highs and lows of his career paint the picture of a dramatic and controversial figure. Forced to stay at length in Trento, he gradually succeeded in acquiring the esteem of Prince Bishop Bernardo Cles with his works, until he eventually became court painter."
– from curator's notes to Order and Extravaganza: The Renaissance of Marcello Fogolino, a retrospective exhibition mounted in 2017 at Museo Castello del Buonconsiglio, Trento
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| Marcello Fogolino Courtyard Decorations ca. 1527-30 fresco Castello del Buonconsiglio, Trento |