CAMPAGNOLA, Giulio and Domenico. — Engravers and painters. Giulio, son of Girolamo, was born in Padua perhaps in 1482 and died after 1514. In 1498 he was at the court of Ferrara; in 1507 in Venice; in 1514 he is recorded 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 the linearism of Mantegna and Dürer and the softened forms typical of Venetian painting of his time, he produced his later prints using the "puntasecca" technique, which allowed him to achieve original results, particularly in the anticlassical spirit that characterizes his work. Notable are the engravings derived from works by Bellini, Dürer, Mantegna, Titian, and especially The Rape of Ganymede and The Samaritan Woman.
Domenico, perhaps born 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 The Concert (Albertina Academy, Vienna), and this in a manner quite different from Giulio’s. In his limited activity as a painter he was a follower of Romanino and Moretto; in 1511 he collaborated with Titian on the frescoes of the Scuole del Carmine and del Santo and those of Casa Cornaro in Padua. In 1531 he painted figures and grotesques in S. Maria del Porto in Venice, and in 1534 in the Scuola di S. Rocco; in 1562 he executed the altarpiece of S. Omobono in Padua. This pictorial experience is revealed, albeit through external features, in his best engravings.