CASTIGLIONE, Giovanni Benedetto Oil Painting Reproduction
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CASTIGLIONE, Giovanni Benedetto
Italian Baroque Era Painter, ca.1609-1664
Painter, printmaker and draughtsman. Most of his works are scenes of the journeys of the patriarchs (e.g. Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob), drawn from the book of Genesis and filled with animals and still-life detail. His oeuvre also, however, includes many spectacular mythological and religious compositions set in expansive landscapes, and for these he found inspiration in Classical mythology, ancient history, Aesop's Fables, 16th-century Italian literature and the lives of the saints. Early biographers claim that he was also a prolific portrait painter, but few examples, save the so-called portrait of Gianlorenzo Bernini (c. 1648-50; Genoa, Pal. Bianco), have been conclusively identified. His surviving subjects reveal his interest in magic and metamorphosis and in philosophical questions such as the frailty of human life, the inevitability of death and the search for truth.
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Painting ID:: 5960
Christ Chasing the Moneylenders from the Temple f
Oil on canvas
Mus??e du Louvre, Paris
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Painting ID:: 5961
The Fable of Diogenes
Oil on canvas, 97 x 145 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid
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Painting ID:: 5962
Meeting of Isaac and Rebecca fg
Oil on canvas, 124 x 175 cm
The Hermitage, St. Petersburg
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Painting ID:: 5963
The Miracle of Soriano fg
1655
Oil on canvas, 319 x 204 cm
Santa Maria della Cella, Genoa
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Painting ID:: 20495
Christ Chasing the Moneylenders from the Temple (mk05)
Canvas 39 1/4 x 49''(100 x 124 cm)Acquired for Louis XV in 1742
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CASTIGLIONE, Giovanni Benedetto
Italian Baroque Era Painter, ca.1609-1664
Painter, printmaker and draughtsman. Most of his works are scenes of the journeys of the patriarchs (e.g. Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob), drawn from the book of Genesis and filled with animals and still-life detail. His oeuvre also, however, includes many spectacular mythological and religious compositions set in expansive landscapes, and for these he found inspiration in Classical mythology, ancient history, Aesop's Fables, 16th-century Italian literature and the lives of the saints. Early biographers claim that he was also a prolific portrait painter, but few examples, save the so-called portrait of Gianlorenzo Bernini (c. 1648-50; Genoa, Pal. Bianco), have been conclusively identified. His surviving subjects reveal his interest in magic and metamorphosis and in philosophical questions such as the frailty of human life, the inevitability of death and the search for truth.
. Related Artists to CASTIGLIONE, Giovanni Benedetto: | William Ludwell Sheppard | Lentulov, Aristarkh | John Kane | Ferdinand Olivier | Herbert Coutts |
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