Background
Giulio Campi was the son of a painter, Galeazzo Campi (1475-1536), under whom he took his first lessons in art. He was born in Cremona, Italy in 1502.
Giulio Campi was the son of a painter, Galeazzo Campi (1475-1536), under whom he took his first lessons in art. He was born in Cremona, Italy in 1502.
In 1522, in Mantua, Giulio Campi studied painting, architecture, and modelling under Giulio Romano.
Campi's works are remarkable for their correctness, vigour and loftiness of style. They are very numerous, and the church of St Margaret in his native town owes all its paintings to his hand. Among the earliest of his school are his brothers, Vincenzo and Antonio, the latter of whom was also of some mark as a sculptor and as historian of Cremona. Giulio's pupil, Bernardino Campi (1522 - 1592), in some respects superior to his master, began life as a goldsmith. After an education under Giulio Campi and Ippolito Corta, he attained such skill that when he added another to the eleven Caesars of Titian, it was impossible to say which was the master's and which the imitator's.