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| Fable of Diogenes
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| Year mid-17th century
Technique Oil on canvas
Dimensions 97 X 145 cm
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| Painting ID:: 67693
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CASTIGLIONE, Giovanni BenedettoItalian 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.
Fable of Diogenes
Year mid-17th century
Technique Oil on canvas
Dimensions 97 X 145 cm
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Related Paintings to CASTIGLIONE, Giovanni Benedetto :.
| Girl with a Mirror | The Eiffel Tower | The Dijon Altarpiece | Strand med badande pojkar | Blumen |
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