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| Boccaccio Boccaccino Adoration of the Shepherds ca. 1500-1507 oil on panel Museo di Capodimonte, Naples |
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| Boccaccio Boccaccino Adoration of the Shepherds ca. 1501 oil on panel Galleria Estense, Modena |
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| Boccaccio Boccaccino Madonna and Child ca. 1504-1505 oil and tempera on panel Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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| Boccaccio Boccaccino Madonna and Child ca. 1506 oil on panel Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Boccaccio Boccaccino Gypsy Girl ca. 1504-1505 oil on panel Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence |
"The caposcuola who dominated the first decade of Cinquecento painting in Cremona was himself an excellent example of the making of a style by intersection of influences, but upon a personality of much consistency and strength. Boccaccio Boccaccino (1467-1525) was the son of a Cremonese resident in Ferrara. His early schooling was entirely Ferrarese, and his activity almost wholly so until about 1505. Ercole Roberti's style as well as Lorenzo Costa's had been most important to him; then, shortly after the beginning of the new century, experience of Venice caused a major infusion of Bellinism in his art."
– S.J. Freedberg from Painting in Italy - 1500 to 1600 in the Pelican History of Art series (London, 1971)
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| Boccaccio Boccaccino Madonna and Child enthroned with St John the Baptist and St Catherine of Alexandria ca. 1504-1505 oil on panel Gemäldegalerie, Berlin |
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| Boccaccio Boccaccino Madonna and Child enthroned with Saints and Donor ca. 1505-1515 oil on panel Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery (West Midlands) |
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| Boccaccio Boccaccino Madonna and Child before 1524 oil on panel Manchester Art Gallery |
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| attributed to Boccaccio Boccaccino Portrait of a Young Man before 1524 oil on canvas private collection |
"Camillo Boccaccino (1504-1546), Boccaccio's son, had a differently active role in his relation with the newer style. Of a different creative stature altogether from his local contemporaries, Camillo was intelligently responsive to the most advance currents of invention that he encountered – not at Cremona, but in Emilia. He found the examples of Correggio, Pordenone, and Parmigianino, and in time that of Giulio Romano, and creatively transformed them. Almost from the beginning, there was an inclination in his style towards a temper which resembled that of Mannerism, and no more than a decade from the time of his first independent work he made an identifiably personal, indeed idiosyncratic, contribution to the repertory of that style. Though first trained by his father, Camillo is reported by old sources, with almost certain truth, to have been in Parma between 1522 and 1524 and connected with Correggio. . . . In 1535 he was commissioned to undertake the decoration of the Cremonese abbey church of S. Sigismondo, which in consequence of his efforts and those of his successors in the task was to become one of the prime ensembles of Mannerist style in Northern Italy. Camillo's work there consisted of the painting of the semi-dome and laterals in the apse. In the semi-dome, the Eternal in Glory with the Evangelists [directly below] . . . indicates that Camillo had turned away from Pordenone to renew his old allegiance to Parma – to both Correggio and Parmigianino. Both Correggio's Parmesan domes and his apsidal scheme at S. Giovanni Evangelista supply the basis of Camillo's design, a cloud-borne illusion at once propelled towards the spectator and ascending into far celestial space, brilliant with silhouetted contrasts of sharp lights and darks. But the precise vocabulary of form is not Correggio's but deduced from Parmigianino, describing shapes in impelled, arbitrary rhythms that make unexpected transformations of appearances and a temper of excitant grace."
– S.J. Freedberg from Painting in Italy - 1500 to 1600 in the Pelican History of Art series (London, 1971)
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| Camillo Boccaccino Eternal in Glory with the Evangelists 1537 fresco Chiesa di San Sigismondo, Cremona |
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| Camillo Boccaccino Madonna and Child in Glory with St Bartholomew, St John the Baptist and St Jerome 1532 oil on canvas Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan |
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| Camillo Boccaccino God the Father ca. 1520-40 oil on panel Museo Civico ala Ponzone, Cremona |
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| Camillo Boccaccino Holy Family in a Landscape ca. 1535-40 oil on panel Glasgow Museums |
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| Camillo Boccaccino Madonna and Child enthroned with the Archangel Michael and Blessed Ambrogio Sansedoni ca. 1537-40 oil on canvas Museo Civico ala Ponzone, Cremona |