Noah and the Animals Entering the Ark
Medium
Etching on ivory paper
Dimensions
Plate: 20.6 × 40.5 cm (8 1/8 × 16 in.); Sheet: 21.7 × 41.2 cm (8 9/16 × 16 1/4 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
40787
About the Artist
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione · 1609–1664
Versatile and eclectic artist open to foreign influence which was unusual for an Italian artist of his time. Some of his best-known works are somewhat fantastical. He was court painter at Mantua from 1648. Comment on works: Religious; Landscapes; Animals; Mythology.