Camillo Boccaccino
Camillo Boccaccino (Italian: [bokkatˈtʃiːno]; 1511 – 4 January 1546)[1][2] was an Italian painter and draughtsman, active mainly in Cremona and the region of Lombardy who painted in a Mannerist style.[3] Even though he died young and only left a very small body of work, he had an important influence on the development of painting in Northern Italy.[4]
Life
[edit]Little is known about the life of the artist. He is mentioned by 16th century art historians Gian Paolo Lomazzo and Giorgio Vasari. He was born in Cremona, the son the painter Boccaccio Boccaccino and Adriana di Farfengo. He trained with his father who had introduced the style of Giorgione and Raphael in Cremona.[2]
Work
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Boccaccino left a small body of work. These include three altarpieces for churches in his hometown Cremona (now respectively in the National Gallery in Prague, the Pinacoteca di Brera and the Museo Civico Ala Ponzone in Cremona), the frescoes in the apse and presbytery of the San Sigismondo Church in Cremona, the wings of the organ depicting The prophet Isaiah and king David in the Church of Santa Maria di Campagna in Piacenza and a handful of sacred and profane works such as the Venus Suckling Cupido (Pinacoteca di Brera). He also left a number of drawings.
He developed his own style which made him the founder of Mannerist painting in the Po valley.[5]
He painted the four evangelists (1537) in the niches of the cupola of San Sigismondo at Cremona.
References
[edit]- ^ The Catholic encyclopedia cites Camillo's birthdate as 1511, Wornum cites 1508
- ^ a b Alfredo Puerari , Camillo Boccaccino in the Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 10 (1968)
- ^ La pittura cremonese, by Principe Bartolommeo de Soresina Vidoni, page 45-50.
- ^ Camillo Boccaccino, Madonna and Child in Glory with St. Bartholomew, St. John the Baptist, St. Albert and St. Jerome at the Pinacoteca di Brera
- ^ Rinviata a data da definire la conferenza del 26/02 su Camillo Boccaccino at the Uffizi website
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