Campi, Giulio - Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. III, p. 299

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

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

BIBL.: A. Jülicher, s. V. in Pauly-Wissowa, III, col. 1443; P. Monceaux, Histoire littéraire de l'Afrique chrétienne, IV, Paris 1912, pp. 32-33. Mario Scaduto

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

His earliest work is the St Christopher in S. Maria del Castello, Viadana. Worthy of note are a Madonna and Saints at the Brera and the Madonna between Sts Roch and Sebastian (1518) in S. Sebastiano, Cremona. His son GIULIO (c. 1502–72) surpassed local tradition, looking especially to Pordenone, Romanino and Titian; later accentuating the Mannerist taste of his idiom in the frescoes of S. Margherita (1547) and Cremona Cathedral (1566–68). The influence of Pordenone is evident in the Adoration of the Child at the Brera. ANTONIO (d. c. 1591), another son of Galeazzo, showed in his works disparate influences, especially of Parmigianino, G. Romano and Pordenone. From the harshly decorative Mannerism of his early period (Annunciation in S. Agostino, Cremona; Fall of St Paul, Milan, etc.) he moved to a pre-Caravaggesque naturalistic luminism (Decapitation of the Baptist in S. 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 youngest son; works by him are in Milan (Civico Museum) and at Kirchheim Castle. BERNARDINO (c. 1522–96) underwent various influences (Parmigianino, G. Romano, Correggio); he produced numerous works, both paintings and frescoes, in Cremona (church of S. Agata), Piacenza, Milan, etc. Notable is the St Cecilia and St Catherine in S. Sigismondo, Cremona.

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, ibid. 1872, pp. 53, 192, 197, 199–200, 283, 342, 345; F. Malaguzzi Valeri, s. V. in Thieme-Becker, V, pp. 470; R. Longhi, Quesiti 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 family C.: E. Schweitzer, La scuola pittorica cremonese, in L'Arte, 3 (1900), pp. 46–50, 60–70. Luigi Grassi