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(3) Vincenzo Campi
(b Cremona, 1530–35; d Cremona, 1591). Painter, brother of (2) Antonio Campi. He trained in the family workshop in Cremona, absorbing from (1) Giulio Campi a formal and complex style of composition and from Antonio an expressive pathos. His earliest surviving works, which show little originality, were executed in the 1560s—altarpieces such as the Deposition (Cremona, SS Siro e Sepolcro) and the Pietà for S Facio in Cremona (Cremona, Osp. Nuovo). In the Pietà in the chapterhouse at Cremona Cathedral he attempted, through naturalism and illusionism, to express the new iconographical precepts of the Counter-Reformation. Similar and interesting paintings, which also show Vincenzo’s characteristic sentimentality, are the Pietà (Bordolano, S Giacomo) and the Pietà now in the Museo Civico Ala Ponzone at Cremona. He worked in fresco on the Prophets (1573) on the nave arches in Cremona Cathedral.
Part of the Campi family
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