Melancholia
Prints and Drawing Purchase Fund
Catalogue
- Year
- 1629
- Dimensions
- Image/sheet; cut within plate: 21.7 × 11.7 cm (8 9/16 × 4 5/8 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist
Painting
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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More by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione
Bacchanal Before a Herm
1660 · oil and red-brown pigment
La Mèlancolie
1655 · etching
Noach met de dieren op weg naar de ark
1650 · brush on paint (coating), paper
Maria met het Christuskind en drie engelen
1650 · etching on paper
Christ on the Cross
1650 · brush on oil paint (paint), watercolor (paint), paper, pencil
Circe with Companions of Ulysses Changed into Animals
1650 · Etching on ivory laid paper
Record
Verified by WattsOS- Year
- 1629
- Dimensions
- Image/sheet; cut within plate: 21.7 × 11.7 cm (8 9/16 × 4 5/8 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1629-332129
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified