Bernardino Campi

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Bernadino Campi
Sofonisba Anguissola, Bernardino Campi Painting a Portrait of Sofonisba Anguissola Anguissola, c. late 1550s.
Born1522
Died18 August 1591
NationalityItalian
OccupationPainter
Madonna in Glory by Bernardino Campi

Bernadino Campi (1522–1591) was an Italian

. He made a number of sets of copies of the
Gonzaga collection, adding one of Domitian, which he based on a work by Giulio Romano
. Titian's originals were all lost in an 18th-century fire in Madrid.

Bernardino was commissioned by

Pietro Martire Pesenti in the interior decoration, including frescoes by Bernardino, of the Palazzo del Giardino in Sabbioneta, near Mantua
.

Among his pupils were Giovanni Antonio Morandi (active 1585), Andrea Mainardi, and Pietro Martire Pesenti, both active in the Palazzo of Guastalla.[1]

References

Bibliography

  • R. Miller, in (I Campi. 500 Years of Cremonese Artistic Culture (I Campi. Cultura artistica cremonese del 500), a cura di M. Gregori, Milan, 1985, pp. 154–170
  • Freedberg, Sydney J. (1993). Painting in Italy, 1500-1600. Penguin Books Ltd. pp. 583 & 590–1.
  • M. Tanzi, I Campi, Milan, 2005

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