Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 08 (of 10): Bastiano to Taddeo ZuccheroVasari, Giorgio
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Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 08 (of 10): Bastiano to Taddeo Zucchero
Vasari, Giorgio
Art, Italian; Artists -- Italy -- Biography
While Boccaccino was still alive, but old, Cremona had another painter,
called Galeazzo Campo, who painted the Rosary of the Madonna in a large
chapel in the Church of S. Domenico, and the facade at the back of S.
Francesco, with other works and altar-pieces by his hand that are in
Cremona, all passing good. To him were born three sons, Giulio, Antonio,
and Vincenzio; but Giulio, although he learned the first rudiments of
art from his father Galeazzo, nevertheless afterwards followed the
manner of Soiaro, as being better, and studied much from some canvases
executed in colours at Rome by the hand of Francesco Salviati, which
were painted for the weaving of tapestries, and sent to Piacenza to Duke
Pier Luigi Farnese. The first works that this Giulio executed in his
youth at Cremona were four large scenes in the choir of the Church of S.
Agata, containing the martyrdom of that virgin, which proved to be
such, that a well-practised master might perhaps not have done them so
well. Then, after executing some works in S. Margherita, he painted many
facades of palaces in chiaroscuro, with good design. For the Church of
S. Gismondo, without the city, he painted in oils the altar-piece of the
high-altar, which was very beautiful on account of the diversity and
multitude of the figures that he executed in it, in competition with the
many painters who had worked in that place before him. After the
altar-piece he painted there many things in fresco on the vaulting, and
in particular the Descent of the Holy Spirit on the Apostles, who are
foreshortened to be seen from below, with beautiful grace and great
artistry. At Milan, for the Church of the Passione, a convent of Canons
Regular, he painted a Christ Crucified on a panel in oils, with some
Angels, the Madonna, S. John the Evangelist, and the other Maries. In
the Nunnery of S. Paolo, a convent also in Milan, he executed four
scenes, with the Conversion and other acts of that Saint. In that work
he was assisted by Antonio Campo, his brother, who also painted for the
Nunnery of S. Caterina at the Porta Ticinese, likewise in Milan, for a
chapel in the new church, the architecture of which is by Lombardino, a
picture in oils of S. Helen directing the search for the Cross of
Christ, which is a passing good work. And Vincenzio, likewise, the third
of those three brothers, having learned much from Giulio, as Antonio has
also done, is a young man of excellent promise.
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