Vincenzo Campi (ca. 1530 - d. 1591)

• Was a 16th-century Italian painter working in Cremona Renaissance.
• Campi was born into a family of prominent artists.
• He was the son of Italian Renaissance painter Galeazzo Campi, and younger brother of painters Giulio and Antonio.
• Vincenzo and Antonio are thought to have trained in the workshop of their older brother Giulio.
• Other artists working alongside Campi in Cremona between 1580 and 1585 include Bartolomeo Passarotti and his apprentice, Annibale Carracci.
• Art historians often describe these 1580s works as a precursor to Caravaggio’s more progressive realism emerging in the following decade.
• The displayed painting is a crop from: Vincenzo Campi, The Kitchen, 1590-91.
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