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(2) Camillo Procaccini
(b Bologna, c. 1555; d Milan, 21 Aug 1629). Painter, printmaker and draughtsman, son of (1) Ercole Procaccini.
He was first mentioned in 1571 as a student in the Bolognese painters’ guild when his father, Ercole (i), was its head. This, and the stylistic maturity of his earliest surviving documented works, the frescoes (1585–7) in S Prospero, Reggio Emilia, suggest his date of birth. Trained by his father, he went to Rome c. 1580 with Conte Pirro Visconti, an important Milanese collector. His studies in Rome, particularly of the art of Taddeo Zuccaro, clearly affected his work after his return to Bologna. In 1582 he decorated the side walls of the apse of S Clemente, Collegio di Spagna, Bologna, and these frescoes (partially photographed before their destruction in 1914) seem to have been an energetic reflection of the exaggerated forms and contrasts of scale typical of mid-16th-century central Italian painting.
Part of the Procaccini family
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