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Artists›Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione

1609

WA-00119234

PaintingBaroque

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Birth yearArtsy· 85%✓
LocationArtsy· 85%
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Smithsonianhttps://www.si.edu/object/chndm_1931-73-222
Tier 1 · Institutional90%

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Why this artist matters now

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.

Source: Smithsonian Institution · Trust score: 90% · Updated 1mo ago

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Artworks (20)

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

La Mèlancolie

1655 · etching

Cleveland Museum of Art

Noach met de dieren op weg naar de ark

1650 · brush on paint (coating), paper

height: 245 cm, width: 390 cm

Rijksmuseum

The Oath of Abraham’s Servant

1650 · oil on canvas

Framed: 71.2 x 94 x 9 cm (28 1/16 x 37 x 3 9/16 in.); Unframed: 56 x 78.4 cm (22 1/16 x 30 7/8 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Christ on the Cross

1650 · brush on oil paint (paint), watercolor (paint), paper, pencil

height: 390 cm, width: 277 cm

Rijksmuseum

Maria met het Christuskind en drie engelen

1650 · etching on paper

width: 284 cm, height: 413 cm

Rijksmuseum

Circe with Companions of Ulysses Changed into Animals

1650 · Etching on ivory laid paper

Image/sheet; cut within plate: 21.5 × 30.9 cm (8 1/2 × 12 3/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Noah and the Animals Entering the Ark

1650 · Etching on ivory paper

Plate: 20.6 × 40.5 cm (8 1/8 × 16 in.); Sheet: 21.7 × 41.2 cm (8 9/16 × 16 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Fete of Pan

1648 · etching

Cleveland Museum of Art

The Genius of Castiglione

1648 · etching

Cleveland Museum of Art

Peinzende Circe, zittend naast een monument

1648 · pen on paper, ink

height: 163 cm, width: 259 cm

Rijksmuseum

Diogenes Seeking an Honest Man

1645 · Etching on cream laid paper

Image: 21.9 × 30.6 cm (8 5/8 × 12 1/16 in.); Plate: 22 × 31 cm (8 11/16 × 12 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

A Pagan Sacrifice

1645 · Oil paint on tan laid paper, laid down on cream wove paper

57.6 × 42.5 cm (22 11/16 × 16 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Hoofd van een man met een banderol

1645 · etching on paper

width: 80 cm, height: 108 cm

Rijksmuseum

Herders met een kudde

1640 · pen on paper, ink

height: 173 cm, width: 258 cm

Rijksmuseum

Tobit Burying the Dead

1640 · oil and dark red pigment with oil and brown pigment; framing lines in gold paint over oil and dark red pigment

Sheet: 27.7 x 41.4 cm (10 7/8 x 16 5/16 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

The Creation of Adam

1637 · Monotype in black ink on ivory laid paper

30.3 × 20.3 cm (11 15/16 × 8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Melancholia

1629 · Etching on ivory laid paper

Image/sheet; cut within plate: 21.7 × 11.7 cm (8 9/16 × 4 5/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Mourners Over the Dead Christ

1620 · Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, on ivory laid paper, laid down on ivory laid card

17.6 × 25.7 cm (6 15/16 × 10 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Landschap met voorttrekkende kudden

1620 · brush on paper, oil paint (paint)

height: 280 cm, width: 413 cm

Rijksmuseum

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Artwork sources (3)

20 published of 20 catalogued · 20 with image

Rijksmuseum
7 published7 img
Art Institute Chicago
7 published7 img
Cleveland Museum of Art
6 published6 img

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 10)

10 entries · 1 sources

Herders met een kudde
1640 · Rijksmuseum · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Christ on the Cross
1650 · Rijksmuseum · 1 prov
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Noach met de dieren op weg naar de ark
1650 · Rijksmuseum · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Landschap met voorttrekkende kudden
1620 · Rijksmuseum · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Peinzende Circe, zittend naast een monument
1648 · Rijksmuseum · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
La Mèlancolie
1655 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
The Oath of Abraham’s Servant
1650 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Tobit Burying the Dead
1640 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Bacchanal Before a Herm
1660 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
The Genius of Castiglione
1648 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number

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