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(2) Antonio Campi
(b Cremona, 1523; d Cremona, Jan 1587). Painter, engraver, architect and writer, brother of (1) Giulio Campi. He probably trained with Giulio in a style tending towards Mannerism. His first signed and dated work, the Virgin and Child with SS Jerome and Joseph, with Donor (1546; Cremona, S Ilario), reflects the style of Camillo Boccaccino, himself inspired by Parmigianino, and the influence of Boccaccino on Antonio increased in the following years and is particularly marked in a series of chiaroscuro engravings (1547 to the early 1550s; e.g. Adoration of the Magi, 1547). Around 1547 Antonio collaborated with Giulio on frescoes in S Margherita, Cremona. Still working with Giulio, from 1549 he painted at least half of the eight canvases for the Palazzo della Loggia, Brescia, illustrating Stories of Justice (in situ and dispersed in Brescia, Pin. Civ. Tosio-Martinengo; Budapest, Mus. F.A.), and in 1557 he frescoed part of the first bay of S Sigismondo in Cremona.
Part of the Campi family
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