Gerolama Campagna (1549-c. 1625)The Veronese Campagna was a pupil of the sculptor Danese Cattaneo. After his master's death, Campagna inherited his drawings and plaster models and finished off one of his works, a marble reliefReliefThe word 'relief' is taken from the Latin 'relevare', meaning 'to raise'. In a relief design or sculpture, parts of the object are raised. In a work of art this might be a depiction, but it also includes the background. In a relief the foreground merges into the background. There are several kinds of relief. If less than half the depiction projects from the surface it is a low relief or 'basso rilievo'; 'mezzo rilievo' is when half the volume of the figures projects from the surface; if more than half is shown the term is high relief, or 'alto rilievo'. Inverted relief, in which the depiction is carved into the surface, is known as 'cavo rilievo' or hollow relief. for a church in Padua. As an independent sculptor, Campagna rapidly acquired a reputation. He received important commissions for monumental projects in Venice and the surroundings. One of these was the bronze altar for San Giorgio Maggiore (1593) in Venice. Campagna produced sculptures and reliefs in stone and bronze. His figures have dynamic, expressive postures. In this he was a forerunner of the Baroque style, which developed later in the seventeenth century. Campagna died around 1625 in Venice. |
