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Artists›Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione

1609–1665

WA-00017054

Genoa, Italy

PaintingBaroque

Representation

None documented

Institutional Exhibitions

Works in Collection

148

Assets Indexed

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Publications Referenced

80%

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Authority Records (1)

WikidataQ40823

Field Verification (3 fields)

1 cross-verified · 2 single-source

Birth yearArtsy· 85%✓
BiographyWikipedia· 88%
NationalityArtsy· 85%

Source Registry (1)

Wikidata
Tier 1 · Institutional40%

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Movement

Baroque

Medium

Painting

Related Artists

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Institutional

Museum Collections

Rijksmuseum The Metropolitan Museum of Art Cleveland Museum of Art Art Institute of Chicago National Gallery of Art

Canonical record

Artworks (99)

Raising of Lazarus (recto); Travelers with Cart Outside Inn (verso)

1700 · Pen and black ink, and red chalk, with brush and gray wash (recto), and brush and black ink and black wash (verso), on cream wove paper

27.1 × 41.8 cm (10 11/16 × 16 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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

The Adoration of the Shepherds

1659 · copper

overall: 41.2 × 60.9 cm (16 1/4 × 24 in.) framed: 66.04 × 86.36 cm (26 × 34 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Pan and Olympus

1655 · etching on laid paper

sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 20.6 x 11.5 cm (8 1/8 x 4 1/2 in.)

National Gallery of Art

David with the Head of Goliath

1655 · monotype in brown oil pigment on laid paper

sheet: 34.8 x 24.8 cm (13 11/16 x 9 3/4 in.)

National Gallery of Art

La Mèlancolie

1655 · etching

Cleveland Museum of Art

The Oath of Abraham’s Servant

1654 · oil paint

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

The Madonna and Child

1650 · etching on laid paper

plate (cut within platemark at top): 43.4 x 31.1 cm (17 1/16 x 12 1/4 in.) sheet: 43.6 x 31500 cm (17 3/16 x 12401 9/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Shepherds Following Their Flock

1650 · etching on laid paper

plate: 25 x 37.1 cm (9 13/16 x 14 5/8 in.) sheet: 25.5 x 37.4 cm (10 1/16 x 14 3/4 in.)

National Gallery of Art

The Animals Going toward the Ark

1650 · etching on laid paper

sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 20.7 × 39.8 cm (8 1/8 × 15 11/16 in.) framed: 44.45 × 59.69 cm (17 1/2 × 23 1/2 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Alexander at the Tomb of Cyrus

1650 · oil heightened with white on laid paper

overall: 58 x 42.9 cm (22 13/16 x 16 7/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

God the Father and Angels Adoring the Christ Child

1650 · etching on laid paper

sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 20.6 x 40.3 cm (8 1/8 x 15 7/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

The Animals Going toward the Ark

1650 · etching on laid paper

sheet: 22.5 × 42.2 cm (8 7/8 × 16 5/8 in.) plate: 21.3 × 41 cm (8 3/8 × 16 1/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Noach met de dieren op weg naar de ark

1650 · brush on paint (coating), paper

height: 245 cm, width: 390 cm

Rijksmuseum

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

Saint Francis in Ecstasy

1650 · oil paint

77 × 53 1/4 in. (195.6 × 135.3 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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

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

The Raising of Lazarus

1649 · Etching on ivory laid paper

Plate/image: 22.7 × 31.6 cm (8 15/16 × 12 1/2 in.); Sheet: 28.8 × 37.4 cm (11 3/8 × 14 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Genius of Castiglione

1648 · Etching in black on ivory laid paper

37 × 24.2 cm (14 5/8 × 9 9/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Fete of Pan

1648 · etching

Cleveland Museum of Art

Peinzende Circe, zittend naast een monument

1648 · pen on paper, ink

height: 163 cm, width: 259 cm

Rijksmuseum

Head of a Young Man in a Feathered Hat (so-called Self-Portrait)

1647 · etching on laid paper

plate: 18.7 x 13.7 cm (7 3/8 x 5 3/8 in.) sheet: 19 x 13.9 cm (7 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.)

National Gallery of Art

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Artwork sources (6)

99 published of 118 catalogued · 118 with image

Nga
46 published46 img
Art Institute Chicago
35 published35 img
Rijksmuseum
6 published6 img
Cleveland Museum of Art
6 published6 img
The Met
6 published6 img
+ 1 more source · 19 catalogued, not yet published

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 10)

35 entries · 2 sources

The Oath of Abraham’s Servant
1654 · Cleveland · 6 prov
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Two Nymphs and a Satyr
1640 · Nga · 5 prov
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The Adoration of the Shepherds
1659 · Nga · 5 prov
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Saint Francis in Ecstasy
1650 · Met · 5 prov
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The Genius of Castiglione
1645 · Cleveland · 4 prov
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Youth Playing a Pipe for a Satyr
1647 · Met · 3 prov
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Bacchanal Before a Herm
1660 · Cleveland · 3 prov
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Tobit Burying the Dead
1647 · AIC · 2 prov
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Herders met een kudde
1640 · Rijksmuseum · 1 prov
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Christ on the Cross
1650 · Rijksmuseum · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number

Record

Images

28 assets

Landschap met voorttrekkende kudden (1620 - 1665)

Rijksmuseum

Noach met de dieren op weg naar de ark (1650 - 1665)

Rijksmuseum

Christ on the Cross (ca. 1650 - ca. 1659)

Rijksmuseum

Rijksmuseum

Peinzende Circe, zittend naast een monument (1648 - before 1653)

Rijksmuseum

Maria met het Christuskind en drie engelen (1650 - 1655)

Rijksmuseum

Hoofd van een man met een banderol (1645 - 1650)

Rijksmuseum

Smithsonian Institution

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Relationships

Movements1

Baroque

Collections5

Rijksmuseum The Metropolitan Museum of Art Cleveland Museum of Art Art Institute of Chicago National Gallery of Art

Institutional

Representation & Collections

In collection

Rijksmuseum

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

In collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

In collection

Art Institute of Chicago

In collection

National Gallery of Art

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