# The Chess Players [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [CAMPI, Giulio]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 90 x 127 cm ## Commentary In northern Italy, during the sixteenth century, chess and sometimes cards were accepted as appropriate courtly pastimes, and often shown as allegories of love, with amorous and aristocratic players. Giulio Campi's Chess Players, with its subtle play of gesture and expression, is an example of Lombard genre paintings. ## Related artworks - [Portrait of a Man]() - [Portrait of Father Galeazzo Campi]() - [Portrait of Ottavio Farnese]() - [The Ascension of Christ]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()