Giulio Campi (1502 – 5 March 1572) was an Italian painter and architect. His brothers

Vincenzo Campi Vincenzo Campi (; c.1530/1535–1591) was a 16th-century Italian painter working in Cremona during the Late Renaissance. Campi is best known as one of the first northern Italian artists to work in the Flemish style of realist genre painting. ...

and Antonio Campi were also renowned painters.

Biography

The eldest of a family prominent painters, Campi was born at Cremona. His father Galeazzo (1475–1536) taught him the first lessons in art. In 1522, in

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, he studied painting, architecture, and modelling under

Giulio Romano Giulio Romano (, ; – 1 November 1546), is the acquired name of Giulio Pippi, who was an Italian painter and architect. He was a pupil of Raphael, and his stylistic deviations from High Renaissance classicism help define the sixteenth-cent ...

. He visited

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, became an ardent student of the antique, and like Bernardino — distantly related to him — he combined a Lombard and Roman traditions. He collaborated on some works with Camillo Boccaccino, the son of

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, ' ...

, with whom Campi may also have received training. Campi is called the "

Ludovico Carracci Ludovico (or Lodovico) Carracci (21 April 1555 – 13 November 1619) was an Italian, early-Baroque painter, etcher, and printmaker born in Bologna. His works are characterized by a strong mood invoked by broad gestures and flickering light th ...

of Cremona" for his influence, since Campi was as influential during the Renaissance in Cremona as the latter was on the Baroque school of Bologna. When he was just twenty-seven Giulio executed for the church of Sant'Abondio his masterpiece, a ''Virgin and Child with Sts Celsus and Nazarus'', a decoration masterly in the freedom of its drawing and in the splendour of its color. His numerous paintings are grandly and reverently conceived, freely drawn, vigorously coloured, lofty in style, and broadly handled. He was animated in all his work by a deep piety. Many of his fresco works are housed in churches of Cremona,

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and in the church of Saint Margaret's, in his native town. Among his chief works are '' The Chess Game'', ''Descent from the Cross'' in San Sigismondo at Cremona, and the frescoes in the dome of San Girolamo at Mantua. He was involved in the reconstruction and decoration of the church of Santa Rita in Cremona. An altar-piece in San Sigismondo and his ''Labours of Hercules'' were engraved by the celebrated Ghiso, ''il Mantovano''. He died in Cremona in 1572.

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External links

''The engravings of Giorgio Ghisi''
an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Campi (see index)
''Painters of reality: the legacy of Leonardo and Caravaggio in Lombardy''
an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Campi (see index) {{DEFAULTSORT:Campi, Giuilio 1502 births 1572 deaths Architects from Cremona 16th-century Italian architects Italian Renaissance architects 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Painters from Cremona Renaissance painters