Antonio Campi: un inedito del 1584 e qualche riflessione sull’ultima attività

The appearance on the Roman art market of the Saint John the Baptist by Antonio Campi, signed and dated 1584, even if with stylistic characteristics closer to the production of twenty years earlier, invites us to reflect on the eclecticism of the Cremonese painter in the last period of his activity, entangled between modern lighting experiments and perspective illusionism and more dated exemples of Romanistic muscular exhibitionism. An attempt is also made to link the iconography of the canvas to that of a lost cycle of frescoes dedicated to the Stories of the Baptist, made in Lodi in 1571.