Bacchanal Before a Herm
1660 · oil and red-brown pigment
Sheet: 41.2 x 55.7 cm (16 1/4 x 21 15/16 in.)
Cleveland Museum of Art
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Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione
1609
PaintingBaroque
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21
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Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione 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. He was known as Il Grechetto in Italy and in France as Le Benédette.
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