CAMPAGNOLA, GIULIO and DOMENICO. — Engravers and painters. GIULIO, son of Girolamo, b. in Padua perhaps in 1482, d. after 1514. In 1498 he was at the court of Ferrara, in 1507 in Venice; in 1514 he is mentioned as an engraver in the will of Aldo Manuzio. In his paintings the influence of Mantegna and Giorgione is evident.
As an engraver, after oscillating between Mantegnaesque-Dürerian linearism and the softening of forms characteristic of Venetian painting in his time, he executed his later prints using the technique of “stipple engraving,” which enabled him to achieve original results, especially through the ant-classical spirit that characterizes his work. His engravings based on works by the Bellini, Dürer, Mantegna, and Tiziano are noteworthy, particularly Rutto di Ganimede and Samaritana.
DOMENICO, b. perhaps in 1482 in Padua, where he was still working in 1562; it is not known whether he was related to Giulio or merely his pupil.
In collaboration with him he executed the engraving Il concerto (Accademia Albertina, Vienna), in a manner quite different from Giulio’s. In his limited activity as a painter he followed Romanino and Moretto; in 1511 he collaborated with Tiziano on the frescoes of the Scuole del Carmine and the Santo, as well as those in the Cornaro residence in Padua. In 1531 he painted arabesques and figures in S. Maria del Parto in Venice, and in 1534 in the Scuola di S. Rocco; in 1562 he executed the altarpiece of S. Omobono in Padua. This painterly experience, albeit through external characteristics, is revealed in his finest engravings.