Camillo Boccaccino (; 1511 – 4 January 1546) was an Italian painter of the

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period, active mainly in Cremona and regions of

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.La pittura cremonese
by Principe Bartolommeo de Soresina Vidoni, page 45-50. He was born in

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, the son and pupil of the painter

Boccaccio Boccaccino Boccaccio Boccaccino (c. 1467 – c. 1525) was a painter of the early Italian Renaissance, belonging to the Emilian school. He is profiled in Vasari's ''Le Vite delle più eccellenti pittori, scultori, ed architettori'' (or, in English, '' ...

. He was known to

Gian Paolo Lomazzo Gian Paolo Lomazzo (26 April 1538 – 27 January 1592; his first name is sometimes also given as "Giovan" or "Giovanni") was an Italian artist and writer on art. Praised as a painter, Lomazzo wrote about artistic practice and art theory after ...

and

Giorgio Vasari Giorgio Vasari (, also , ; 30 July 1511 – 27 June 1574) was an Italian Renaissance Master, who worked as a painter, architect, engineer, writer, and historian, who is best known for his work ''The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculpt ...

. He painted the ''four evangelists'' (1537) in the niches of the cupola of ''San Sigismondo'' at Cremona.

References

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The Catholic encyclopedia
cites Camillo's birthdate as 1511, Wornum as 1508. 1511 births 1546 deaths 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Painters from Cremona Renaissance painters {{Italy-painter-16thC-stub