Sunday, June 2, 2019

Antonio Campi (ca. 1522-1587) - Drawings and Prints

Antonio Campi
Cavalry Battle
ca. 1578
drawing
Teylers Museum, Haarlem

Antonio Campi
Frieze of Foliated Ornament containing a Goat and two Human Figures
before 1587
drawing
Victoria & Albert Museum

Antonio Campi
Design for a sotto in su Ceiling Decoration
before 1587
drawing
National Galleries of Scotland

Antonio Campi
Portrait of Christina of Denmark, Dowager Duchess of Milan
before 1587
drawing
British Museum

Antonio Campi
Head of a Man looking up
before 1587
drawing
British Museum

"Admitting and at times seeming even to force the possibilities of differences of style, he [Antonio Campi] was also able, when he wished, to force union on them, adapting Lombard verism to the styling processes of high Maniera.  . . .  Antonio's early inclination seems to have been to master the formulae of Maniera that his teacher, Giulio Campi, had deduced from Emilia, but to make them more explicitly Maniera and more up to date.  A dry elegance, more accurately reflecting the late Mantuan Giulio [Romano] in particular, invests Antonio's first recasting of his older brother's style.  His goal went farther than this, however: to assimilate the learned and virtuoso language of the classicist Maniera observable in Mantua and in prints that had their origin in Rome." 

– S.J. Freedberg from Painting in Italy - 1500 to 1600 in the Pelican History of Art series (London, 1971)

Antonio Campi
St Sebastian
(study for painting)
ca. 1575
drawing
National Galleries of Scotland

attributed to Antonio Campi
Sibyl reading
before 1587
drawing
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Antonio Campi
Allegory of Music
ca. 1546-55
chiaroscuro woodcut
(printed from two blocks in brown)
British Museum

Antonio Campi
Holy Family
1550
chiaroscuro woodcut
(printed from three blocks in red)
British Museum

Antonio Campi
Mystic Marriage of St Catherine
1547
chiaroscuro woodcut
(printed from two blocks in brown and black)
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
(Achenbach Foundation)

Antonio Campi after Parmigianino
Mucius Scaevola holding his Hand in the Flames
before 1587
chiaroscuro woodcut
(line-block only)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Antonio Campi after Parmigianino
Mucius Scaevola holding his Hand in the Flames
before 1587
chiaroscuro woodcut
(line-block only, printed on blue paper)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Antonio Campi after Parmigianino
Mucius-Scaevola-holding-his-hand-in-the-Flames-
before 1587
chiaroscuro woodcut
(printed from two blocks in blue and black)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Antonio Campi after Parmigianino
Mucius Scaevola holding his Hand in the Flames
before 1587
chiaroscuro woodcut
(line-block only, printed on brown paper)
British Museum