- Girolamo Campagna
Girolamo Campagna (born in
Verona ,1552 ; died about 1623 or 1625) was a Northern Italian sculptor.He studied under
Jacopo Sansovino and Danese Cattaneo, and completed many of the latter's works. He was responsible for the figure ofDoge Leonardo Loredano on the tomb which Cattaneo made inSanti Giovanni e Paolo, Venice . After his master's death, Campagna went toPadua where he secured the commission intended for Cattaneo in theBasilica of Saint Anthony of Padua . This was his masterpiece, abas-relief of the saint bringing back to life a man who had been murdered.Some years later Campagna made another trip to Padua and wrought the bronze
tabernacle for the chapel of the Blessed Sacrament. The greater part of his life was spent in Venice, and there we have the majority of his works: the statues ofSt. Francis andSt. Clare bearing the "ostensorium" at Santa Maria dei Miracoli; that of St.Justina of Padua over the door of the Arsenal, commemorating theBattle of Lepanto (1571) , which occurred on her feast-day (7 October), during Campagna's lifetime; the colossalSt. Sebastian at theZecca ; the figures of theVirgin Mary , theArchangel Gabriel and patron saints of Venice, in relief on the Ponte di Rialto; the group in bronze of Christ on a globe, supported by theFour Evangelists atSan Giorgio Maggiore . He also madeterracotta figures inSan Zulian and worked in theFrari . In Verona there is anAnnunciation over the portal of the old Palazzo del Consiglio and a Madonna at the Collegio dei Mercatanti.References
*Perekins, "Historical Handbook of Italian Sculpture" (New York, 1883).
*Catholic|Girolamo Campagna
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