Emperor Nero
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Portrait of the Emperor Nero, by Bernardino Campi (Cremona 1522-1591) and workshop. From the sixteenth-century historian Alessandro Lamo ("Historical information of the Cremonese painters, sculptors, and architects") we know that Berardino Campi produced and replicated several times the series of 11 Roman Emperors that he had made for the first time at the request of Ferdinando d'Avalos, Marquis of Pescara. While he was in Mantua in 1561 to participate in the Duke's wedding, he asked Berardino Campi - court painter - to make a copy for him of the famous series of portraits of the Roman Emperors created by Tiziano Vecellio in 1538 for the Gonzagas. The