CAMPAGNA, Girolamo
(b. ca. 1549, Verona, d. 1625, Venezia)

Angel of the Annunciation

1609-10
Bronze
Loggia del Consiglio, Verona

At around 1606 Campagna returned to the use of bronze, producing the statue of St Anthony Abbot for San Giacomo di Rialto in 1605, bronze statuettes of St Agnes and St Anthony of Padua for Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari in 1608-09, and the high-relief figures of the Angel and Virgin Annunciate for the Loggia del Consiglio (now Castelvecchio), Verona, in 1609-10. The St Anthony Abbot evokes the proto-Baroque style of Palma Giovane's figures in his later paintings, while the Annunciation figures exploit the dramatic contrasts of the theme in a manner reminiscent of Veronese.