Enciclopedia Cattolica

CAMPI

Volume III · p. 299 · 1949

English translation · Testo originale italiano

CAMPI. - Famiglia di artisti cremonesi. GaLaezo (1477-1536), si formó su esempi venetoferraresi, soprattutto sul Boccaccino, e umbri (Perugino).
CAMPI. - Famiglia di artisti cremonesi. GaLaezo (1477-1536), si formó su esempi venetoferraresi, soprattutto sul Boccaccino, e umbri (Perugino).

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

His first work is the *St Christopher* in Santa Maria del Castello, at Viadana. Worth noting are a *Madonna and Saints* at the Brera and the *Madonna between Sts Roch and Sebastian* (1518) in San Sebastiano, Cremona. His son Giulio (c. 1502–72) surpassed local tradition, looking especially to Pordenone, Romanino, and Titian; later hinting at the Mannerist taste of his language in the frescoes of Santa Margherita (1547) and the Cremona cathedral (1566–68). The influence of Pordenone is evident in the *Adoration of the Child* at the Brera. Avronio (d. c. 1591), another son of Galeazzo, showed in his works disparate influences, especially those of Parmigianino, Giulio Romano, and Pordenone. From the harshly decorative Mannerism of his early period (*Annunciation* in Sant’Agostino, Cremona; *Fall of St Paul*, Milan, etc.) he moved toward a naturalistic luminism, precociously Caravaggesque (*Beheading of the Baptist* in San Paolo, Milan).

This reform in a naturalistic direction reached its peak, with a taste for still life and genre scenes, in the art of Vincenzo (1536–91), Galeazzo’s last son; works by him are found in Milan (Civic Museum) and at Kirchheim castle. Bernardino (c. 1522–96) was subject to various influences (Parmigianino, Giulio Romano, Correggio); he produced numerous works, both paintings and frescoes, in Cremona (church of Sant’Agata), Piacenza, Milan, etc. Notable is the *St Cecilia and St Catherine* in San Sigismondo, Cremona.

Bibl.: For Galeazzo: G. Grasselli, s. V. in Abecedario biografico dei pittori, scultori, architetti cremonesi, Cremona 1827, p. 76; for Giulio: G. Grasselli, s. V. ibid., p. 470; for Antonio: G. B. Zaist, s. V. in Notizie storiche dei pittori, scultori, architetti cremonesi, Cremona 1774, pp. 160–79; F. Sacchi, Notizie pittoriche cremonesi, ibid. 1872, pp. 53, 192, 197, 199–200, 283, 342, 343; F. Malaguzzi Valeri, s. V. in Thieme-Becker, V, pp. 470; R. Longhi, *Queriti caravaggeschi*, in Pinacoteca, I (1928), pp. 17–38; II (1929), pp. 238–320; E. Tietze Conrat, *A master drawing by A. C.*, in Art in America, 27 (1939), pp. 160–63; for Vincenzo: F. Malaguzzi Valeri, s. V. in Thieme-Becker, V, p. 472; for Bernardino: G. B. Zaist, s. V. ibid., pp. 189–214; F. Sacchi, op. cit., pp. 63, 192–93, 343–49, 350; F. Malaguzzi Valeri, s. V. in Thieme-Becker, V, p. 468; for the Campi family: E. Schweitzer, *La scuola pittorica cremonese*, in L’Arte, 3 (1900), pp. 46–50, 60–70. Luigi Grassi