Italian sculptor. He belonged to the “Campionesi”, the group of sculptors and architects, who were active in northern Italy and elsewhere from the mid-12th century to the late 14th and originated from Campione (Campigliono) di Lugano.
Ugo da Campione was active in Bergamo, and he was the father of Giovanni da Campione.
The tomb of Cardinal Guglielmo Longhi (d 1319) in Santa Maria Maggiore, Bergamo) is attributed to Ugo da Campione.
The group of sculptors and architects, who were active in northern Italy and elsewhere from the mid-12th century to the late 14th and originated from Campione (Campigliono) di Lugano, has been termed “Campionesi” in the 19th century.
In the works of the Campionesi masters active in the 14th century in Lombardy, Romanesque structural elements are blended with Gothic details. Among the most important examples is the tomb of Cardinal Guglielmo Longhi (d 1319; Santa Maria Maggiore, Bergamo), attributed to Ugo da Campione.
The tomb of Guglielmo Longhi is typical of Lombard sculpture about 1320, at which the Gothic structure of the tabernacle seems designed to draw attention to the essentially un-Gothic sculptural forms. It was on sculpture of this class (much of it turned out by carvers from Campione near Lugano) that Tuscan sculpture reacted after the arrival in Milan, about 1324, of Giovanni di Balduccio.
Guglielmo Longhi, also known as Guglielmo Longo degli Alessandrini (c. 1243-1319), was an Italian cardinal. He became cardinal in 1294 as the first cardinal from Bergamo. He participated in all four conclaves which elected popes that took place during the period of his cardinalate.
