Girolamo Campagna

Who is Girolamo Campagna?

Girolamo Campagna was a Northern Italian sculptor.

Born in Verona, he went to Venice in 1572 and studied under both Jacopo Sansovino and Danese Cattaneo, and completed many of the latter's works. He was responsible for the figure of Doge Leonardo Loredano on the tomb which Cattaneo made in Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice. After his master's death, Campagna went to Padua where he secured the commission intended for Cattaneo in the Basilica of Saint Anthony of Padua. This was his masterpiece, a bas-relief of the saint bringing back to life a man who had been murdered.

Some years later Campagna made another trip to Padua and wrought the bronze tabernacle for The Chapel of the Holy Sacrament, in the right aisle.

The greater part of his life was spent in Venice, and there we have the majority of his works:

the statues of St. Francis and St. Clare bearing the ostensorium at Santa Maria dei Miracoli;

the statue of St. Justina of Padua over the door of the Arsenal, commemorating the Battle of Lepanto, which occurred on her feast-day, during Campagna's lifetime;

the colossal St. Sebastian at the Zecca;