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Bernardino Campi (Reggio Emilia, 1520 – Reggio Emilia, 1591)
Born and died in Reggio Emilia, but he worked the main part of his life in Cremona and surroundings and he is in every respect a Cremonese artist. There has, as yet, not been proven a direct link with the Campi’s, the famous artist family from Cremona, but he shares name and fame with them. And he was a pupil of Giulio Campi, and that may not be a coincidence. He was an important late mannerist painter, with well composed, executed and balanced compositions. Though within the renaissance tradition, he was open for new concepts from the Counter Reformation and opened, as in his handling of light, the way to a modern artistic language.
Bibliography: Still very valid the Exhibition catalogue of the Campi’s (I Campi e la cultura artistica cremonese del Cinquecento, Cremona 1985).
Art valuations - Bernardino Campi (Reggio Emilia, 1520 – Reggio Emilia, 1591)
Works by Bernardino Campi and, as for that matter, the majority of the production of other Cremonese artist from the period, are mainly altarpieces and fresco’s which, as is natural, rarely appear on the market. But their drawings which, albeit rare, at least do surface fetch considerable prices. An autograph drawing of a Nativity (a less elaborated composition compared to the painting offered by Bigli Art Broker), cm. 32 x 16, fetched recently £ 22.500 (Sotheby’s London), and an other autograph drawing, with The Holy Father blessing, made $ 45 000 in 2003 (Sotheby’s New York). A portrait, justly ‘attributed’ to Bernardino Campi was sold for 134 500 in 1994.
Bigli Art Broker, artworks by Bernardino Campi (Reggio Emilia, 1520 – Reggio Emilia, 1591)
Bernardino Campi
Adoration of the shepherds (signed and dated 1574)
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