Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (baptized March 23, 1609 in Genoa ; entry in the Book of the Dead of the Cathedral on May 5, 1664 in Mantua ), called il Grechetto , was an Italian painter, etcher, graphic artist and etcher.
Life
The pupil Giovanni Battista Paggis , Giovanni Andrea De Ferraris (1598–1669) and Anthony van Dycks educated himself in Rome, Florence, Parma and Venice and then entered the service of Duke Charles I in Mantua.
Castiglione has achieved his reputation through his outstanding depictions of animals, which, after careful observation, he was able to demonstrate both in the respective posture and in the gaze corresponding to the subject; the historical and biblical allegations usually only give the theme for his pictures, while animals and the landscape play the main artistic role. Much of his oil painting work is devoted to the themes of the Old Testament, namely the story of Abraham and the tribal fathers. In particular, he took examples such as Rebecca's home tour in the caravan as an opportunity to showcase his genuinely ingenious animal painting.
He often treated his narrative, often biblical representations in a similar way, his characters follow conventional models; in his conception of color he follows both Italian and Dutch models of animal painting. Castiglione has also become very well known as an etcher, with his etchings following the style of Rembrandt , who was already world-famous at the time ; There are over 70 such sheets. In 1786 a series of twelve sheets etched after Castiglione's drawings by G. Zompini was published in Venice, although the engraver did not know how to reproduce Castiglione's grandiose preliminary drawings.
The British consul in Venice, Joseph Smith , had acquired a collection of more than two hundred drawings in the mid-18th century, some of them from the part of the collection of the Dukes of Mantua that was auctioned in Venice in 1711. The volumes went to the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle .
Works
(Selection)
- Abraham and Melchizedek, after 1645, canvas, 100 × 125 cm, Paris, Musée National du Louvre.
- Allegory of Abundance, canvas, 198 × 287 cm. Genoa, Marchese A. Doria collection.
- Christ drives the moneylenders out of the temple
- The fable of Diogenes
- Nativity, 1645, canvas, 398 × 218 cm. Genoa, S. Luca.
- Nativity, copper, 38 × 30 cm. Genoa, Galleria Balbi.
- Homecoming of Jacob, canvas, 99 × 123 cm, Madrid, Museo del Prado.
- St. Bernard and the crucifix, canvas, 305 × 222 cm, Samierdarena (near Genoa), S. Maria della Cella.
- St. Jacobus bursts the walls, canvas, 316 × 327 cm. Genoa, Oratorio di S. Giacomo Maggiore Apostolo.
- Isaac and Rebecca
- Noah lets the animals out of the ark, canvas, 198 × 216 cm, Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum.
- Rebecca's home tour to Jaacob in Canaan, canvas, 191 × 280 cm, former Rothschild collection, Granados private collection, Madrid.
- Expulsion of dealers and money changers from the temple, canvas, 98 × 120 cm, Paris, Musée National du Louvre.
- Vulkan und Juno, canvas, 198 × 294 cm. Genoa, Marchese A. Doria collection.
- The miracle of Soriano
literature
- Regina Erbentraut: Castiglione, Giovanni Benedetto . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 17, Saur, Munich a. a. 1997, ISBN 3-598-22757-4 , pp. 223-225.
- Ewald Jeutter: On the problem of Rembrandt reception in the work of the Genoese Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione ( Genoa 1609 - 1664 Mantua ), an investigation into his style and its aftermath in the 17th and 18th centuries. VDG, Weimar 2005, ISBN 978-3-89739-466-7 (dissertation University of Tübingen 1994, 381 pages with illustrations, 28 cm publisher info VDF , also as e-book : ISBN 978-3-95899-252-8 ).
- Kurt Zeitler, works by and around Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (1609 - 1664) . Exhibition of the State Graphical Collection Munich in the Pinakothek der Moderne March 12 - April 28, 2004 Munich: State Graph. Collection, 2004 ISBN 3-927803-40-5
- Frances Vivian, The Consul Smith Collection: Masterpieces of Italian Drawing from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle. From Raffael to Canaletto Hirmer, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-7774-5120-7 .
- Franz Röhn, The graphic of Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione , Gebrüder Hoffmann, Charlottenburg, 1932, DNB 571095577 , OCLC 638077338 , (Inaugural dissertation of the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin 1928, 1 volume, 72 sheets, 8 °).
Web links
- Literature by and about Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Castiglione, Giovanni Benedetto |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Il grechetto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian painter and etcher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | baptized May 23, 1609 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Genoa |
| DATE OF DEATH | before May 5, 1664 |
| Place of death | Mantua |