Sunday, June 2, 2019

Giulio Campi (ca. 1507-1573) - Drawings

Giulio Campi
Seated Saint or Prophet
before 1573
drawing
Harvard Art Museums

attributed to Giulio Campi
Design for Ornamental Panel with Rinceaux, Satyrs, Putti, Monsters, and Human Head
ca. 1535-45
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

attributed to Giulio Campi
Design for Pilaster Decoration
before 1573
drawing
Morgan Library, New York

Giulio Campi
Raising of Lazarus
(study for fresco in Chiesa di Santa Margherita, Cremona)
ca. 1547
drawing
Royal Collection, Great Britain

"Giulio Campi designed and decorated the whole of the small church of Santa Margherita in Cremona for its titular prior, the humanist scholar Marco Girolamo Vida.  This is a final study for the Raising of Lazarus, one of six arched frescoes in the side walls of the barrel-vaulted church.  . . .  With his brother Antonio, Giulio frescoed the entire church interior." [directly below, two additional studies for the same project] 

– from curator's notes at the Royal Collection

Giulio Campi
Transfiguration
(study for fresco in Chiesa di Santa Margherita, Cremona)
ca. 1547
drawing
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Giulio Campi
Adoration of the Shepherds
(study for fresco in Chiesa di Santa Margherita, Cremona)
ca. 1547
drawing
British Museum

Giulio Campi
Study for decoration of Triumphal Arch
for the entry of Charles V into Cremona
(Figure of Neptune)

ca. 1541
drawing
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

"Giulio Campi probably produced this sketch [of Neptune, above] as a preparatory study for the decoration of one of the triumphal arches erected in Cremona on the occasion of Emperor Charles V's entry into the city on August 18, 1541.  Decorated with statues and representations of his famous deeds and insignia, these arches marked the ruler's route through the city gates to his lodgings.  The number of pentimenti in this rapidly drawn work suggests to scholars that Campi completed the drawing in some haste, probably working under a tight deadline." [directly below, three further studies for the same triumphal arches]

– from curator's notes at the Getty Museum

Giulio Campi
Study for decoration of Triumphal Arch
for the entry of Charles V into Cremona
(Frieze of Trophies with Prisoners on either side)
ca. 1541
drawing
British Museum

Giulio Campi
Study for decoration of Triumphal Arch
for the entry of Charles V into Cremona
(Bearded Man in Chains)
ca. 1541
drawing
British Museum

Giulio Campi
Study for decoration of Triumphal Arch
for the entry of Charles V into Cremona
(Female Figure in Chains)
ca. 1541
drawing
British Museum

Giulio Campi
Design for Palace Façade
ca. 1550-60
drawing
Princeton University Art Museum

attributed to Giulio Campi
Jupiter and Semele
 before 1573
drawing
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Giulio Campi
Jupiter and Astraea
(study for fresco)
ca. 1545-50
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Giulio Campi
Two Kings united by a Figure of Peace
before 1573
drawing
Harvard Art Museums