Girolamo Campagna

Girolamo Campagna (1549–1625) was a Northern Italian sculptor.

Born in

of the saint bringing back to life a man who had been murdered.

Some years later Campagna made another trip to Padua and wrought the bronze

(Cappella del Santissimo Sacramento, also known as Cappella Gattamelata), in the right aisle.

The greater part of his life was spent in Venice, where he produced the majority of his works:

• the statues of
  St Clare bearing the ostensorium at Santa Maria dei Miracoli
  ;
• the statue of St
  Battle of Lepanto (1571)
  , which occurred on her feast-day (7 October), during Campagna's lifetime;
• the colossal
  St Sebastian at the Zecca
  ;
• the figures of the
  Archangel Gabriel and patron saints of Venice, in relief on the Ponte di Rialto
  ;
• the group in bronze of Christ on a globe, supported by the Four Evangelists and a Madonna for the second altar in the left nave at San Giorgio Maggiore;
• the statues of
  St. Sebastian (Sala superiore) at Scuola Grande di San Rocco
  ;
• the statues at San Sebastiano;
• a chimney piece for the Sala del Collegio at the
  Doge's Palace
  .
• He also made
  Frari
  .

At the end of the 16th Century he was the most famous sculptor in Venice and was commissioned with the most important artworks.

In Verona there is an Annunciation over the portal of the old Palazzo del Consiglio and a Madonna at the Collegio dei Mercatanti.

In 1590 he first produced bronze statues.

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Girolamo Campagna". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. cites:
• Perekins, Historical Handbook of Italian Sculpture (New York, 1883).
• Getty-Museum Campagna
• Rossi, Paola, "Girolamo Campagna," Verona 1968
• Schulz, Juergen, review of P. Rossi, "Girolamo Campagna," Verona 1968 IN: Art Bulletin, vol. LIII, 1971, pp. 250–253

External links

• museumplanet Arsenal
• museumplanet SS Giovanni e Paolo
• museumplanet Doge's Palace
• European sculpture and metalwork, a collection catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Campagna (see index)