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| Bernardino Campi Battle of Lapiths and Centaurs ca. 1540-45 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Bernardino Campi God the Father ca. 1567-70 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Bernardino Campi Assumption of the Virgin (study for painting) ca. 1542 drawing Morgan Library, New York |
"After a brief apprenticeship with his father, who was a goldsmith, Bernardino Campi entered the workshop of Giulio Campi in Cremona, who appears not to have been a blood relation. Bernardino then briefly worked in Mantua under the Giulio Romano follower Ippolito Costa, but by 1541 he had returned to Cremona, where most of his surviving work is found. He often drew in black chalk on colored paper, lightly smudging the chalk to achieve subtle tonalities or applying it with a sharpened tip for deeper shadows. The rich modulation through the use of white chalk reveals the dominant influence of Camillo Boccaccino and Giulio Campi on his style. Few finished compositional studies by Bernardino are known, and only a couple of these are as impressive as the present drawing [directly above]. It is a finished preparatory study for Bernardino's signed painting of the Assumption of the Virgin with Canon Facio Trezzi in the church of Sant'Agata, and thus the earliest known drawing by the artist."
– from curator's notes at the Morgan Library
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| Bernardino Campi Entry of the Wooden Horse into Troy before 1591 drawing National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Bernardino Campi Standing Saint before 1591 drawing National Galleries of Scotland |
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| attributed to Bernardino Campi Six Putti in Niches before 1591 drawing British Museum |
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| Bernardino Campi Man reclining on a Bed and admonishing a Youth before 1591 drawing Morgan Library, New York |
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| Bernardino Campi Pietà with St Catherine of Alexandria, the Prophets Elijah and Elisha, and the donor, Gabriele Pizzamiglio di Quinziano (study for painting) ca. 1574 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Bernardino Campi Bearded Old Man seated with Left Arm extended before 1591 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Bernardino Campi Drapery-study seen from the back ca. 1570 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Bernardino Campi St Sebastian and Roman Soldier before 1591 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Bernardino Campi An Army with Trumpeters and Standard Bearers in the Van crossing a River by Pontoon Bridge before 1591 drawing Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| Bernardino Campi Two Standing Prisoners in a Niche ca. 1549 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Bernardino Campi Figure-study before 1591 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |