Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (1609-1664)
Castiglione was born in Genoa, spending his life moving between Genoa, Rome, Naples, and Mantua. He had many different influences, including Domenichino, Poussin, Carracci, Van Dyke, and Rubens, and he frequently appropriated motifs from them. Castiglione was a prolific painter of patriarchal journeys taken from the book of Genesis, such as Noah and Abraham.
He produced many oil drawings throughout his career, not as studies but as finished works. Oil paint drawings are rather unusual and Castiglione was a master of this form.
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