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Renaissance
The Renaissance  was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. The term is also used more loosely to refer to the historical era, but since the changes of the Renaissance were not...
painter from Reggio Emilia
Reggio Emilia
Reggio Emilia  is an affluent city in northern Italy, in the Emilia-Romagna region. It has about 170,000 inhabitants and is the main comune  of the Province of Reggio Emilia....
, who worked in Cremona
Cremona
Cremona  is a city and comune in northern Italy, situated in Lombardy, on the left bank of the Po River in the middle of the Pianura Padana . It is the capital of the province of Cremona and the seat of the local City and Province governments...
. He is known as one of the teachers of Sofonisba Anguissola
Sofonisba Anguissola
Sofonisba Anguissola   was an Italian painter of the Renaissance.-The Anguissola family:...
and of Giovanni Battista Trotti
Giovanni Battista Trotti
Giovanni Battista Trotti  was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance period, active mainly in Piacenza, Parma, and his native city of Cremona....
(il Malosso). In Cremona, his extended family were the main artistic studios. Giulio Campi
Giulio Campi
thumb|250px|Portrait of Alessandro Farnese.Giulio Campi  was an Italian painter and architect. His brothers Vincenzo Campi and Antonio Campi were also renowned painters.-Biography:...
and Antonio Campi
Antonio Campi
Antonio Campi  was an Italian painter of the Renaissance.He was born in Cremona. His style merges Lombard with Mannerist styles. In Cremona, his extended family were the main artistic produce. Giulio Campi and Antonio were reportedly half-brothers, while Vincenzo Campi was a full brother....
, half-brothers, were distant relatives of Bernardino; the latter is generally considered the most talented of the family. All were active and prominent painters locally. Influences on Bernardino's are likely diverse, including those from local Cremonese such as Camillo Boccaccino
Camillo Boccaccino
Camillo Boccaccino  was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in Cremona and regions of Lombardy. He was the son and pupil of the painter Boccaccio Boccaccino. He was known to Gian Paolo Lomazzo and Giorgio Vasari...
, to artists from artists from neighboring regions such as Correggio, Parmigianino
Parmigianino
Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola , also known as Francesco Mazzola or more commonly as Parmigianino  or sometimes "Parmigiano", was an Italian Mannerist painter and printmaker active in Florence, Rome, Bologna, and his native city of Parma...
and Giulio Romano
Giulio Romano
Giulio Romano  was an Italian painter and architect.  A pupil of Raphael, his stylistic deviations from high Renaissance classicism help define the 16th-century style known as Mannerism...
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