Un dipinto di Antonio Campi alla Pinacoteca Vaticana
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A rather neglected small panel with the Stigmata of St. Francis,
previously attributed to Girolamo Muziano and his circle (or dubiously
associated with Marcello Venusti), actually shows decisive formal
similarities to Antonio Campi’s production. The piece is currently
displayed in room XI in the Pinacoteca Vaticana (inv. 40370). Its intense
pathetism and striking realism, very far from Muziano’s elegant
mannerism, were probably the causes of its little appreciation among
critics; if properly considered, these characters, together with the
peculiar pre-Caravaggian side lighting, support the attribution to the
painter from Cremona. Several stylistic elements allow us to situate it in
the time-span between the Beheading of St. John the Baptist for San
Paolo Converso in Milan (1571) and the Prayer in the Garden for Santa
Maria della Noce in Inverigo (1577). Those were years of hectic activity
for the artist, who was well integrated in the local milieu of religious and
secular patrons, and engaged in a fruitful confrontation with the
Leonardesque tradition, as demonstrated by the formal reference to
Cesare da Sesto’s Salome in the altarpiece with the Beheading of St. John the Baptist in San Sigismondo in Cremona.
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