Giovanni benedetto castiglione etchings on monuments
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (1609-1664)
A prolific and multifaceted artist, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione was both a talented painter and a remarkably innovative draftsman. After training in his native Genoa, Castiglione traveled widely throughout the Italian peninsula, working in Genoa, Rome, Naples, Mantua, and Venice.Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione's etching, Among the subjects of his etchings are Diogenes with his lantern, Noah leading animals into Arc, St Joseph Asleep during Flight from Egypt, Circe surrounded by animals, Silenus at the fountain, Nativity, Resurrection of Lazarus, and The Genius of Castiglione.
An etching of figures against a Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Italian, –). Etching; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Delia E. Holden Fund
An etching of Diogenes with Nicknamed ‘Il Grechetto’ for the classical feel of his pastoral landscapes, the Genoese artist Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione was among the most fluent draughtsmen of the 17th century. He also produced a prodigious number of etchings, and invented the technique of monotype printmaking.
The exhibition includes approximately 80 The Genius of Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, called Il Grechetto, , etching - National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo - DSCJPG 3, × 5,; MB.
He is best known Castiglione: Lost Genius—Masterworks on Paper from the Royal Collection features 90 of the finest drawings, etchings and monotypes by the master draftsman, painter, and printmaker Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione.
Castiglione made his monotypes Castiglione made some sixty etchings, all characterized by lively handling and highly personal content. He was influenced by Anthony van Dyck, in whose studio he worked in Genoa, and later by the etchings of Rembrandt, just a few years his senior, working in Amsterdam.
In this etching, Giovanni In the s, Castiglione produced a group of etchings that bring to life the world of Theocritus' 'Idylls' and Virgil's 'Eclogues', in which Pan is frequently invoked as lord of the flocks and patron of pastoral poetry.