Carlo Urbino (1525/30–1585) was an Italian

painter Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ...

of the

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. He was born in Crema. His style recalls the

mannerist Mannerism, which may also be known as Late Renaissance, is a style in European art that emerged in the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520, spreading by about 1530 and lasting until about the end of the 16th century in Ita ...

work of the Campi family:

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, Bernardino, and

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. He trained in the Veneto and is known to have participated in drawings for a treatise on the science of armaments by

Camillo Agrippa Camillo Agrippa (died 1 January 1600) was a noted fencer, architect, engineer and mathematician of the Renaissance. He is considered to be one of the greatest fencing theorists of all time. Biography Though born in Milan, Agrippa lived and wor ...

. In 1556, he painted the canvas of ''Christ and Mother'' and an ''Assumption of the Virgin'' for

Santa Maria presso San Celso Santa Maria dei Miracoli presso San Celso is a church and a sanctuary in Milan, Lombardy, northern Italy. History and overview The construction was begun by Gian Giacomo Dolcebuono and Giovanni Battagio in 1493, to house a miraculous icon of the ...

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. He helped decorate a Chapel in

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. Later he worked with

Bernardino Campi Bernadino Campi (1522–1591) was a Renaissance painter from Cremona, who worked in Reggio Emilia. He is known as one of the teachers of Sofonisba Anguissola and of Giovanni Battista Trotti (il Malosso). In Cremona, his extended family owned t ...

, for example in the ''Transfiguration'' (1565) in the church of San Fedele in Milan. The canvas of ''Doubting Thomas'' is found in the

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. He painted in the Chapel of the Angels in

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, a ''Pentecost'' in the church of

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. In the 1570s, he returned to Crema, where he painted a canvas for the Sanctuary of Santa Maria della Croce, and in

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, painted frescoes for the

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of Vespasiano Gonzaga.

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* Derived from the entry in Italian. * People from Crema, Lombardy 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Painters from Cremona Italian Mannerist painters Year of birth uncertain 16th-century births 1585 deaths {{Italy-painter-16thC-stub