It is one of the works that best represents the attention paid by the youngest descendant of the Campesca dynasty to the painting of reality. In this painting he describes the details of the everyday life of the peasant. The painting depicts the move that the laborers were forced to carry out from one farmhouse to another due to the expiration of their contract. This custom, linked to the feast of San Martino, celebrated on November 11th, despite being rooted up to the middle of the last century in the countryside of the Po valley, constitutes an iconographic subject that is unprecedented in other sixteenth-century Italian and foreign works.
Title: Sammartino
Author: Vincenzo Campi
Date:
Technique: Oil painting on canvas
Displayed in: Ala Ponzone Civic Museum
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