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| Giulio Campi Virgin and Child with St Catherine of Alexandria, St Francis, and the donor, Stampa Soncino 1530 oil on panel Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan |
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| Giulio Campi Portrait of a Man before 1573 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
"In Cremona the history of painting in the second half of the Cinquecento is in the main a family affair, an account of the heirs and dependents of the old, enduring Giulio Campi (ca. 1507-1573). As earlier, the city was a natural point of confluence of Emilian and Lombard elements of style, and these external pressures seem to have increased after the middle of the century: it is thanks to the different responses that these pressures provoked among Giulio's successors that they display, despite their common heritage, a remarkable diversity of style. . . . Antonio Campi (ca. 1522-1587), Giulio's much younger brother, was the most various of the younger Campi in his ways of dealing with these pressures and also the most original. . . . His example in this only moderately conditioned Bernardino Campi (1521-1591, a distant relative at best), a gentler personality, less inquiring as well as less inventive than Antonio. . . . Vincenzo Campi (ca. 1530-1591), Antonio's younger brother, took the contrary tack and achieved his main fame as an early painter of still life cum genre, inspired by North European sources. In addition to their long activity in Cremona, all the Campi worked extensively in Milan itself, Bernardino in particular. Despite the conditioning of their style by the atmosphere of Milan, their art, especially in its Maniera aspects, helped lighten the ponderous complexion the school of Milan bore at this time."
– S.J. Freedberg from Painting in Italy - 1500 to 1600 in the Pelican History of Art series (London, 1971)
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| Antonio Campi The Sacred Mysteries of the Passion of Christ 1569 oil on canvas Musée du Louvre |
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| Antonio Campi St Sebastian 1575 oil on canvas Pinacoteca del Castello Sforzesco, Milan |
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| Antonio Campi Martyrdom of St Lawrence 1581 oil on canvas Chiesa di San Paolo Converso, Milan |
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| Antonio Campi St Jerome ca. 1566 oil on panel, transferred to canvas Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| Bernardino Campi Pietà with St Catherine of Alexandria, the Prophets Elijah and Elisha, and the donor, Gabriele Pizzamiglio di Quinziano 1574 oil on canvas Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan |
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| Bernardino Campi Mary Magdalene before 1591 oil on canvas Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
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| Bernardino Campi Portrait of a Woman ca. 1565-70 oil on canvas Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Vincenzo Campi St Francis receiving the Stigmata ca. 1580-90 oil on canvas Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan |
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| Vincenzo Campi Christ nailed to the Cross 1571 oil on canvas Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| Vincenzo Campi Lamentation before 1591 oil on canvas Palazzo Ala Ponzone, Cremona |
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| Vincenzo Campi Mysteries of the Rosary - Road to Calvary ca. 1576-81 oil on panel Chiesa Collegiata di San Bartolomeo, Busseto |
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| Vincenzo Campi Mysteries of the Rosary - Resurrection ca. 1576-81 oil on panel Chiesa Collegiata di San Bartolomeo, Busseto |