Galeazzo Campi

 ( 1470s Births ) 

Galeazzo Campi (1475/1477 – 1536) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance from Cremona in Lombardy. He was a pupil of Boccaccio Boccaccini. His representation was rather rigid, but careful. His landscapes show influences of Perugino and Giovanni Bellini.

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Biography Campi was the head of a family of artists, active in the mid and late 16th century in Cremona. Galeazzo is known to have contributed to painting in the church of Sant'Abbondio and for the Duomo of Cremona along with his brother Sebastiano. L'arte, by Adolfo Venturi, Volume 3; article titled La Scuola Pittorica Cremonese by Eugenio Schweitzer, page 46. But the family of artists also included his three sons, Giulio Campi, Antonio Campi and Vincenzo Campi, each who also became a notable painter in their own.

The painters Tommaso Aleni (known also as il Fadino) was said to be a pupil.E. Schweitzer, page 51. Among his contemporaries in Cremona were Antonio Cigognini, Francesco Casella, Galeazzo Pesenti (Il Sabbioneta), Lattanzio da Cremona, Nicolo da Cremona, Giovanni Battista Zupelli, and Giovanni Francesco Bembo. The schools of Lombardy, Mantua, Modena, Parma, Cremona, and Milan. (1826), by Luigi Lanzi, translated by Thomas Roscoe, pages 159-160. Among his pupils was Lorenzo Becci.E. Schweitzer, page 52.

Campi's works include a self-portrait, which was given a place in the Uffizi gallery of Florence. Other notable paintings include "Raising of Lazarus" and "A Virgin and Child".

• Galeazzo Campi on German Wikipedia
• Galeazzo Campi, painted by his son Giulio

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