The Chess Game (Campi painting)

The Chess Game is a c.1530 painting by Giulio Campi, a Renaissance painter from Cremona. Since 1970, it has been in the Museo civico d'arte antica in Turin.

It was first published in 1963 by Roberto Longhi whilst still in the Nigro collection in Genoa. He attributed it to Sofonisba Anguissola but mentioned similarities to Campi's Allegory in Museo Poldi Pezzoli in Milan. Mina Gregori attributed the work to Campi by comparison with a portrait by Giulio of his father Galeazzo (Uffizi).

References

Bibliography

• (in Italian) Giovanni Godi and Giuseppe Cirillo, Studi su Giulio Campi, Milano, Arte Lombarda, 1978, SBN IT\ICCU\NAP\0095755.
• (in Italian) I Campi: cultura artistica cremonese del Cinquecento, Milano, Electa, 1985, pp. 133-134, SBN IT\ICCU\PAL\0002579. Edited by Mina Gregori.
• (in Italian) AA VV, Sofonisba Anguissola e le sue sorelle, Milano, Leonardo arte, 1994, SBN IT\ICCU\VEA\0063954. Exhibition catalogue, held in Cremona in 1994 and Vienna and Washington in 1995.
• (in Italian) Bert W. Meijer, 'Cremona e i Paesi Bassi', in I Campi: cultura artistica cremonese del Cinquecento, Milano, Electa, 1994, pp. 25-32, SBN IT\ICCU\PAL\0002579. A cura di Mina Gregori. Catalogo della mostra tenuta a Cremona nel 1994, a Vienna e a Washington nel 1995.