Varii Capricci, e Paesi inventati, e disegnati dal celebre Gio. Benedetto Castiglione ... tratti dal raccolta Zanettiana
Medium
Etchings, many third state
Classification
Books
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of János Scholz, 1949
Accession Number
49.13.7
Tags
About the Artist
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto)|Gaetano Gherardo Zompini|Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto)|Anton Maria Zanetti the Elder|John Strange · 1609–1664
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, known as Il Grechetto, was baptized on March 23, 1609, in Genoa and died on May 5, 1664, in Mantua. Born into a large family, he collaborated closely with his brother Salvatore, an artist who shared his talents, and later taught his son Francesco, whose works were sometimes confused with his own. His parents placed him in the studio of Giovanni Battista Paggi, where...