A painter, draftsman, and theorist, Carlo Urbino worked mainly in his native Crema and in Milan. He was the author of the Codex Huygens (New York, Pierpont Morgan Library), a collection of studies of proportion and perspective based, in part, on the notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci. His first documented work is the altarpiece painted in 1556 in the church of Santa Maria press San Celso, Milan. In the seventh decade he was associated with Giulio Campi in Milan, collaborating with him and also providing the designs for a few altarpieces. He worked also together with Aurelio Luini. In the seventies and eighties Urbino returned to his native city, working there and in Sabbioneta. |
