Giovanni benedetto castiglione etchings on monuments
Giovanni benedetto castiglione etchings on monuments near me.
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione
Italian Baroque artist
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (baptized 23 March &#;&#; 5 May ) was an Italian Baroque painter, printmaker and draftsman, of the Genoese school.
He is best known now for his etchings, and as the inventor of the printmaking technique of monotyping.
Giovanni benedetto castiglione etchings on monuments
He was known as Il Grechetto in Italy and in France as Le Benédette.
He painted portraits, history paintings and landscapes, but came to specialize in rural scenes with more animals than human figures. Noah's ark and the animals entering the Ark was a favourite subject of his,[3] and he devised a number of other new subjects from the early parts of the Old Testament with the patriarchs and their animals.
Biography
Castiglione was born in Genoa. The biographer of Genoese painters, Raffaele Soprani says his parents had him placed in the studio of Giovanni Battista Paggi. Wittkower describes him as a "passionate student" of Anthony van Dyck, who arrived