Giuseppe Camino

Giuseppe Camino (1818-1890) was an Italian painter best known for landscapes and vedute. He worked in the second half of the nineteenth century, and Piedmont, his native region, remained the core of much of his production.

He trained under Giuseppe Bogliani and Angelo Beccaria. As a young man he painted an altarpiece for the church of Rocciamelone, showing Saint Vincent of Paoli, and a Via Crucis for the Convent of the Visitation in Turin. He also worked on stage scenery for the Teatro Regio in Turin, a field where landscape painting and the construction of space often overlapped.

Among his landscapes are views of the Roman Campagna, dated to about 1845, and views of Paris and London from 1851. Alpine scenery of Piedmont, however, was his most constant subject. Many of his works are now held at the Ducal Castle of Agliè.