God the Father

Prints and Drawings

1567/70

Bernardino Campi
Italian, 1522-1591

Initially unattributed, this drawing was owned by the renowned Italian drawings scholar Philip Pouncey, who found it was a study for the central fresco executed by Bernardino Campi in the dome of San Sigismondo in Cremona between 1567 and 1570. Born in Cremona and trained in Mantua and Milan, Campi must have recalled the ceiling frescoes of Michelangelo and Correggio in his powerful evocation of God the Father.

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Artist: Bernardino Campi
Title: God the Father
Place: Italy (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1567–1570
Medium: Black chalk, heightened with white gouache, squared in black chalk, on gray-brown laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed verso, lower right, on mount, in graphite: "Pordenone/L 35 — 18"
Dimensions: 21.2 × 36.8 cm (8 3/8 × 14 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 2013.908
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Giulio Bora, “Note cremonesi, I: Camillo Boccaccino, Le proposte,” Paragone 295 (1974), p. 70 n. 79.
Mario di Giampaolo, “Aspetti della grafica cremonese per S. Sigismondo… ,” Antichità viva 13, 6 (1974), pp. 23, 30–31 n. 52, fig. 32.
Suzanne Folds McCullagh (ed.), Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2006), p. 25, cat. 2 (ill.).

Cremona, Santa Maria della Pietà and Museo Civico, “I Campi e la cultura artistica cremonese del Cinquecento,” cat. by Mina Gregori, 1985, pp. 296–97, cat. 2.10.6 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, “Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection,” June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 25, cat. 2 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, “The Thrill of the Chase: Drawings for the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection,” March 15-June 15, 2014, no cat.

Sold by Max de Beer, de Beer Fine Art, London, to Philip (died 1990) and Myril Pouncey, London, June 8, 1959; sold, Sotheby’s, New York, Jan. 21, 2003, lot 11, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA.; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.

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