Pedro de Campaña
Pedro de Campaña (spr. -Pánja) (* 1503 in Brussels ; † around 1580; actually probably Champagne or van de Velde, de Kempeneer ) was a Flemish painter .
He went to Italy at an early stage, trained according to Raphael and Michelangelo , painted the triumphal arch intended for the coronation of Charles V in Bologna on his trip to Rome and later moved to Seville, where he had lived since 1548 at the latest.
Towards the end of his life he is said to have returned to his hometown and died there around 1580. Campaña combined the manner of the Raffael school with his earliest Dutch upbringing; from this he gained a freer conception of form and composition, from this he preserved a diligent development and a dignified coloring. However, he did not achieve a completely free form and a deeper understanding of the general attitude.
Various works by him have been preserved in Seville. His most famous is the depiction of the Descent from the Cross in the great sacristy of the cathedral , which Murillo is said to have admired so much, but in which the main arrangement is borrowed from Raphael's composition engraved by Marcanton. Other paintings can be found in the cathedral's Mariscalkapelle. Particularly noteworthy are Campaña's artistic designs of the altar of the Church of St. Anna in Triana , a district of Seville, which depicts the fight of St. George with the dragon in the middle . The altar is surrounded by 15 pictures depicting events from the life of Mary.
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| SURNAME | Campaña, Pedro de |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Champagne, pedro; Velde, Pedro van de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1503 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brussels |
| DATE OF DEATH | around 1580 |