CAMPI. - A family of Cremonese artists. GALEAZZO (1477-1536) trained on Venetian-Ferrarese models, above all on Boccaccino, and on Umbrian ones (Perugino).

CAMPI, GIULIO - The Purification of the Virgin. Fresco. Cremona, church of S. Margherita.

His first work is the St. Christopher in S. Maria del Castello, at Viadana. Worth remembering are a Madonna and Saints at Brera and the Madonna between Sts. Roch and Sebastian (1518) in S. Sebastiano, at Cremona. His son GIULIO (ca. 1502-72) went beyond the local tradition, looking especially to Pordenone, to Romanino, to Titian; later accentuating the mannerist taste of his idiom, in the frescoes of S. Margherita (1547) and of the cathedral of Cremona (1566-68). The influence of Pordenone is evident in the Adoration of the Child, at Brera. ANTONIO (d. ca. 1591), another son of Galeazzo, showed in his works disparate influences, especially those of Parmigianino, of G. Romano, of Pordenone. From the harshly decorative mannerism of his first period (Annunciation in S. Agostino at Cremona, Fall of St. Paul, at Milan, etc.) he passed to a naturalistic luminism, pre-Caravaggesque (Decollation of the Baptist in S. Paolo at Milan).

This reform in a naturalistic sense reached its height, with a taste for the "still life" and the genre scene, in the art of VINCENZO (1536-91), the last son of Galeazzo; works of his are found at Milan (Museo Civico) and in the castle of Kirchheim. BERNARDINO (1522-96 ca.) underwent various influences (Parmigianino, G. Romano, Correggio); he executed numerous works, paintings and frescoes, at Cremona (church of S. Agata), Piacenza, Milan, etc. Notable is the St. Cecilia and St. Catherine in S. Sigismondo at Cremona.

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BIBL.: For Galeazzo: G. Grasselli, s. v. in Abecedario biogr. 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 stor. dei pittori, scultori, architetti cremonesi, Cremona 1774, pp. 160-79; F. Sacchi, Notizie pittoriche cremonesi, ivi 1872, pp. 53, 192, 197, 199-200, 283, 342, 345; F. Malaguzzi Valeri, s. v. in Thieme-Becker, V, pp. 470; R. Longhi, Ouesiti caravaggeschi, in Pinacoteca, 1 (1928), pp. 17-38; 2 (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. 186-214; F. Sacchi, op. cit., pp. 63, 192-95, 343-49, 350; F. Malaguzzi Valeri, s. v. in Thieme-Becker, V, p. 468; for the C. family: E. Schweitzer, La scuola pittorica cremonese, in L'Arte, 3 (1900), pp. 46-50, 60-70.

Luigi Grassi

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