himself so well, that the whole work might he supposed to have been executed by one and the same person.
There are certain small pictures which this artist has painted in Yigevano likewise; they are placed on some of the altars in the church, and are highly worthy of praise. He subsequently repaired to Parma, there to work in the Madonna della Steccata; while in this place he completed the Apsis and the Arch which had been left unfinished by the death of the Sienese Michelagnolo: and here, too, 11 Soiaro obtained so much credit by the excellence of his labours, that the Parmesani have commissioned him to paint the principal Tribune of the church, where he is now occupied with a picture representing the Assumption of Our Lady, in fresco, a work which, as it is hoped, will be in all respects worthy of commendation.[1]
At the time when Boccaccino was still living, although he had then become very old, Cremona possessed another painter, called Galleazzo Campi,[2] who painted the Bosary of the Madonna in a large chapel of the church of San Domenico, in that city; as he did also a façade at the back of the church of San Francesco, with other pictures and works of various kinds, which are to be seen in Cremona, and display a tolerably fair amount of merit.[3] To Galeazzo were born three sons, Giulio, Antonio, and Yincenzio. The first-named Giulio, although he acquired the principles of art under his father, did nevertheless subsequently follow the manner of Il Soiaro, as being the better one. He also studied very carefully certain pictures which Francesco Salviati had painted in Pome, to the end that the subjects might be woven into arras, and sent to Piacenza to the Duke Pier Luigi Farnese.
The first works executed by Giulio in his youth, at Cre-
- ↑ This work is said to he one of those whicn the master accomplished with his left hand, he having lost the use of his right hand by a paralytic affection. He died at an advanced age, in the year 1575.
- ↑ According to an inscription, discovered some years since on the portrait of Girolamo Campi, in the Florentine Gallery, he was born in the yeai 1477, and died in 1536. See Vidoni, Pittura Cremonesa, as before cited.
- ↑ The works above described have long perished, but Lanzi mentions a picture by Campi as still existing in the Church of San Sebastiano in Cremona.
