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The only personality who emerges clearly from the Campionesi in the 14th century is Giovanni da Campione, who signed the Baptistery in Bergamo in 1340, one of the porches of Santa Maria Maggiore, Bergamo, in 1351, and the equestrian statue of St Alexander, now in Santa Maria Maggiore, in 1353.
He was perhaps most adept as an architect, at least to judge by his work on the Bergamo Baptistery, an octagonal structure with a colonnade encircling its upper storey. Originally inside Santa Maria Maggiore, the Baptistery was inaccurately rebuilt outside the church; a drawing made in 1660 shows the main lines of the original structure and reveals that the sculptural cycles have been rearranged
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