Camillo Boccaccino Explained

Camillo Boccaccino (pronounced as /it/; 1511 – 4 January 1546) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in Cremona and regions of Lombardy.^[1]

He was born in Cremona, the son and pupil of the painter Boccaccio Boccaccino. He was known to Gian Paolo Lomazzo and Giorgio Vasari. He painted the four evangelists (1537) in the niches of the cupola of San Sigismondo at Cremona.

References

• Book: Bryan, Michael. 1886. Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical . I: A-K . Robert Edmund Graves . 141–142 . George Bell and Sons. London .
• The Catholic encyclopedia cites Camillo's birthdate as 1511, Wornum as 1508.

Notes and References

1. https://books.google.com/books?id=RelZAAAAYAAJ La pittura cremonese