Giulio Campi (1500-1572), Italian painter and architect, eldest of a family prominent in Cremona as painters. Giulio was born at Cremona, son of a painter, Galeazzo Campi (1475-1536), under whom he took his first lessons in art. This article is about the city of Cremona. ...

In 1522, in Mantua, he studied painting, architecture, and modelling under Giulio Romano. He visited Rome, became an ardent student of the antique, and like Bernardino—distantly related to him—he combined a Lombard and Roman traditions. He collaborated on some works with Camillo Boccaccino, the son of Boccacio Boccaccino, with whom Giulio may also have received training. Both Vicenzo Campi and Antonio Campi were siblings. Mantua (in Italian Mantova) is a city in Lombardy, Italy and capital of the province with the same name. ... Giulio Romano (ca 1499? – November 1, 1546) was an Italian painter, architect, painter and decorator, the favorite pupil of Raphael, whose legacy Giulio Romano extended, and at the same time one of the inventors of 16th century Mannerism. ... City motto: Senatus Populusque Romanus – SPQR (The Senate and the People of Rome) Founded 21 April 753 BC mythical, 1st millennium BC Region Latium Mayor Walter Veltroni (Left-Wing Democrats) Area  - City Proper  1290 km² Population  - City (2004)  - Metropolitan  - Density (city proper) 2,823,807 almost 4,000,000 1... Vicenzo Campi (c. ... Antonio Campi (c. ...

Giulio is called the "Ludovico Carracci of Cremona" although he preceded the founder of the Eclectics. When but twenty-seven Giulio executed for the church of Sant' Abbondio his masterpiece, a Virgin and Child with SS. Celsus and Nazarus, a decoration masterly in the freedom of its drawing and in the splendour of its colour. His numerous paintings are grandly and reverently conceived, freely drawn, vigorously coloured, lofty in style, and broadly handled. He was animated in all his work by a deep piety. The churches of Cremona, Mantua, and Milan are filled with his frescoes; and Saint Margaret's, in his native town, is a Giulio Campi gallery. Among his chief works are the Descent from the Cross (S. Sigismondo) at Cremona, and the frescoes in the dome of S. Girolamo at Mantua. An alter-piece in S. Sigismondo and his Labours of Hercules were engraved by the celebrated Ghiso, il Mantovano. He died at at his hometown of Cremona in 1572. Bargellini Madonna (1588) Oil on canvas, 282 x 188 cm Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna Ludovico Carracci (April 21, 1555 – November 13, 1619) was an Italian painter, etcher, and printmaker who helped reinvigorate Italian art after Mannerism by founding an academy in Bologna in 1585. ... Mantua (in Italian Mantova) is a city in Lombardy, Italy and capital of the province with the same name. ... Milan (Italian: Milano; Milanese dialect: Milán) is the main city in northern Italy, and is located in the plains of Lombardy, the most populated and developed region in Italy. ... Fresco by Dionisius representing Saint Nicholas. ...

References

• This article incorporates text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, which is in the public domain.
• This article incorporates text from the public domain Catholic Encyclopedia.
• Freedberg, Sydney J. (1993). Pelican History of Art Painting in Italy, 1500-1600, 583-586.