Giulio Campi (1502-1573)

• Was an Italian painter and architect.
• His younger brothers Vincenzo Campi and Antonio Campi were also renowned painters.
• He was the eldest.
• Campi was born at Cremona.
• His father Galeazzo taught him the first lessons in art.
• In 1522, in Mantua, he studied painting, architecture, and modelling under Giulio Romano.
• He visited Rome, became an ardent student of the antique, and like Bernardino.
• He collaborated on some works with Camillo Boccaccino, the son of Boccaccio Boccaccino.
• Campi is called the "Ludovico Carracci of Cremona" for his influence.
• When he was just twenty-seven Giulio executed for the church of Sant'Abondio his masterpiece, a Virgin and Child with Sts Celsus and Nazarus.
• He was animated in all his work by a deep piety.
• Many of his fresco works are housed in churches of Cremona, Mantua, Milan and in the church of Saint Margaret's, in his native town.
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