Campi

Family of Italian artists, of the school of Cremona, northern Italy, their birthplace. Galeazzo Campi (1475-1536) was a pupil of Boccaccino (1467-1524) and worked in a style imitative of Perugino. His Resurrection of Lazarus is in Castel Maggiore, near Bologna. Giulio Campi (1502-1572), son and pupil of Galeazzo, studied under Giulio Romano in Mantua, and decorated the dome of S Sigismondo in Cremona. Antonio Cavaliere Campi (c. 1522-c. 1600), architect and historian, studied with his brother Giulio under Giulio Romano, but based his art on that of Correggio. His principal pictures are St Paul Raising Eutychus, an altarpiece of the Nativity, and St Jerome in Meditation (Prado, Madrid). He was commissioned to paint for Philip II of Spain in Madrid. Bernardino Campi (1522-1592) was probably related to this family. He studied under Giulio Campi in Mantua, and imitated the work of Titian, Raphael, and Correggio. In 1584 he published a treatise on painting, Parer sulla pittura.