The Nativity with God the Father and angels

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione
Italy
1609 – 1664

The Nativity with God the Father and angels
after 1647
etching on paper
Place made
Rome
Medium
etching on paper
State
B.XXI.13.7; Percy (1971) E18; TIB 4602.007.S1
Dimensions
20.4 x 40.2 cm (plate)
20.8 x 40.4 cm (sheet)
Credit line
V.B.F. Young Bequest Fund 2009
Accession number
20096G55
Signature and date
Signed in plate, c.r., "GENOVESE/ CASTIGLIONE/ p". Not dated.
Catalogue raisonne
B.XXI.13.7; Percy (1971) E18; TIB 4602.007.S1
Media category
Print
Collection area
European prints

  • WALL LABEL: A Beautiful Line: Italian prints from Mantegna to Piranesi, 2012

     

    Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione was a highly inventive printmaker. Trained in Genoa, he moved to Rome around the late 1620s, where he developed an interest in classical art and subject matter. Castiglione’s etchings from the mid-1640s reveal the influence on his art of his great Dutch contemporary, Rembrandt.  This print is based on Castiglione’s altarpiece Adoration of the Shepherds (Church of S. Luca, Genoa). However, Castiglione adapted Rembrandt’s dense, scribbly lines in this etching to produce rich textures and a range of dark tones.

    Maria Zagala, Associate Curator of Prints, Drawings & Photographs, AGSA, 2012

     

    Maria Zagala, Associate Curator of Prints, Drawings & Photographs

  • A beautiful line. Italian prints from Mantegna to Piranesi

    Art Gallery of South Australia, 20 August 2010 – 31 October 2010
  • [Book] Zagala, Maria. 2010. A Beautiful Line : Italian prints from Mantegna to Piranesi.