Abstract (eng)
In the oeuvre of the Paduan painter Domenico Campagnola (1500-1564) the drawings attributed to him are of great importance. There are approximately 800 drawings worldwide, of which currently 443 pieces show landscapes.
This dissertation is dedicated to a painter who is the first professional Italian landscape draughtsman of the 16th century. His artistic activity began around 1517 and developed parallel to the innovative Venetian painting: Campagnola is the contemporary of Giovanni Bellini, Giorgione and Titian. Significantly, these Venetian painters are preparing the new genre of landscapes, but their autonomy has not been achieved in painting, but almost exclusively in drawing and printmaking. In this field, Titian and Campagnola come very close together. Although it cannot be proved that he was active in the master's workshop, as of the late 16th century, there was a great confusion about the attribution of his works.
For this reason, in the introductory chapter, historiography and sources are accurately traced in order to track down the reasons for the mostly false attribution tradition and to explore Campagnola's century-long position "in the shadow of Titian".
In the following two main chapters, which are devoted to "Campagnola at a Glance", the painterly oeuvre is presented, in order to create an approximate orientation system for the chronology of the drawings with the few available datings. On the other hand, for the drawings landscape types are defined, whose proportion of figures helps to fit the works as far as possible into the system of ordering of the painting.
It soon becomes clear that of the 443 landscape sheets that have been attributed to Campagnola over the centuries only a part can be by the artist himself: the young genre was so popular that Campagnola quickly found imitators, who can only be identified in the rarest cases because of the pour sources. For the first time, Stefano dall'Arzere is gaining a sharper profile as alleged pupil of Campagnola, also Campagnola's relationship with Girolamo Muziano is closely examined.
One of the most important sections of the dissertation is dedicated to the reception of the Campagnola landscapes from the 16th to the 18th century. In this field, a multifaceted network of relationships manifests, which throws a completely new light on the modern landscape drawing in general and which had largely been neglected by research. Important masters of printmaking, publishers and collectors are examined in their relationship with Campagnola, including Luca Bertelli, Constantino Malombra, Lucas van Uden, Herman de Neyt, Valentin Lefèvre, Everhard Jabach, the Comte de Caylus and Antoine Watteau.
Since this history of reception is closely linked to the greatest modern collections and the history of their origins, the study concludes with a list of their most important personalities. Thus the circle closes and combines the literary source of historiography and the early research history with the collecting practice of the most famous connoisseurs of the modern age.
The second part of the dissertation contains the extensive catalogue, which in turn is divided into two sections: 251 landscape drawings were assigned to the master, while a further 192 sheets were assigned to his contemporaries and successors in also detailed discussions. The resulting material was integrated into a close-knit network to show the numerous relationships of the drawings. Copies and reproductive prints were also recorded at the appropriate locations. Thus, for the first time, research is given a tool for the classification of this important group of works, which certainly raises the claim to extensive completeness. -- [Illustrations only in print edition]