(b ?Rome, ?1610; d ?Rome, ?1670). Italian painter. Although written sources, documents and inventory entries record him as being one of the main painters of his time in Rome painting still-lifes and animals, it is hard to reconstruct a catalogue of his works. The only certain information on him relates to paintings for Cardinal Flavio Chigi, documented from 1658 to 1660, and to his presence at meetings of the Accademia di S Luca in 1667 and 1668. Of the works for Cardinal Chigi only four animal paintings survive (Ariccia, Pal. Chigi, see Faldi); no signed still-lifes by him are known. Two compositions depicting fruit (St Petersburg, Hermitage), which have been attributed to him since the mid-18th century, represent the only starting-point for reconstructing his oeuvre. It seems certain that he painted Woman Buying Fruit (priv. col., see Salerno, fig. 43.1), which has traditionally been attributed to him and a part of which is reproduced in a painting (priv. col., see Bottari, fig. 140b) attributed to Abraham Breughel (1631–?1680). The Still-life with Marrows, Grapes and Pomegranates (Providence, RI Sch. Des., Mus. A.), commonly attributed to Breughel, should be reattributed to Campidoglio. In these paintings, which can be dated to c. 1660, the compositions of fruit with their rich use of coloured impasto are displayed against landscape backgrounds in a style that owes much to Michelangelo Cerquozzi and to Breughel, through whom Campidoglio was also influenced by Jan Fyt, which can be detected, too, in his animal paintings. Campidoglio’s son Giovan Battista Pace (b c. 1640–45) was a minor painter of religious subjects.

• Pace del Campidoglio, Michele
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