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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:: 20496
Adoration of the Shepherds (mk05)
Copper 27 x 20 1/2''(68 x 52 cm)Acquired for the collection of Louis XV in 1742 INV in 1742
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Painting ID:: 42037
The adoracion of the pastore
mk166
1663-1665
I Wave on copper 68x52cm Museum of
the Louvre, Paris
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Painting ID:: 42040
The rest in the flight to Egypt
mk166
1618
I Wave on cloth 205x186cm Uffizi, Florence
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Painting ID:: 58348
Embrace the glory of the Son and Our Lady of Angels
Mantova mk261 years 1510-1515 oil on canvas 20 x 16.5 cm
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Painting ID:: 67693
Fable of Diogenes
Year mid-17th century
Technique Oil on canvas
Dimensions 97 X 145 cm
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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: | Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux | WITZ, Konrad | Marmion, Simon | Leon Joseph Florentin Bonnat | Petrus Christus |
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