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Camillo Boccaccino

Italian painter

Camillo Boccaccino

Italian painter

''Venus Suckling Cupido'', 1536

Camillo Boccaccino (; 1511 – 4 January 1546) was an Italian painter and draughtsman, active mainly in Cremona and the region of Lombardy who painted in a Mannerist style. 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.

Life

Little is known about the life of the artist. The writings of the 16th century art historians Gian Paolo Lomazzo and Giorgio Vasari are the principal sources of information. He was born in Cremona, the son of the painter Boccaccio Boccaccino and Adriana di Farfengo. He trained with his father who had introduced the style of Giorgione and Raphael in Cremona.

Work

''The prophet Isaiah and king David'', 1530

Boccaccino left a small body of work. It includes 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 reflecting his knowledge of the work of Parmigianino, Correggio and Pordenone. He thus became the founder of the Mannerist style in painting in the Po valley.

References

References

  1. [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02606a.htm The Catholic encyclopedia] cites Camillo's birthdate as 1511, Wornum cites 1508
  2. [https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/camillo-boccacci_(Dizionario-Biografico) Alfredo Puerari, ''BOCCACCI, Camillo''] in the Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 10 (1968)
  3. [https://books.google.com/books?id=RelZAAAAYAAJ La pittura cremonese], by Principe Bartolommeo de Soresina Vidoni, page 45-50.
  4. [https://pinacotecabrera.org/en/collezione-online/opere/madonna-con-il-bambino-in-gloria-e-i-santi-bartolomeo-giovanni-battista-alberto-e-gerolamo Camillo Boccaccino, ''Madonna and Child in Glory with St. Bartholomew, St. John the Baptist, St. Albert and St. Jerome''] at the [[Pinacoteca di Brera]]
  5. [https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/camillo-boccaccino ''BOCCACCINO, Boccaccio ''] in theEnciclopedia on line
  6. [https://www.uffizi.it/eventi/dialoghi8-2020 Rinviata a data da definire la conferenza del 26/02 su Camillo Boccaccino] at the Uffizi website
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