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Giovanni Battista Castello

Giovanni Battista Castello (1547 - 1637) was active/lived in Italy.  Giovanni Castello is known for Miniatures and tempera illuminations.

The painter Giovanni Battista Castello specialised in miniatures and tempera illuminations, a field in which he showed his full technical mastery. This is evident in this exceptional illumination, a work about which the expert Elena De Laurentiis has written: "this unpublished miniature is one of the earliest known works by the artist and is characterised by a meticulous and exquisite attention to detail. The model derives from a free interpretation of Giulio Romano's fresco of the same subject in the church of San Stefano in Genoa. Castello's brilliant and refined use of colour is notable, and Laurentiis compares it to The Adoration of the Magi of 1588 (Städel Museum, Frankfurt). Although he starts from Giulio Romano's painting, he adds and subtracts characters to accommodate his own narrative quest. As in Romano's composition, two planes coexist, the earthly and the heavenly, in dialogue with each ot   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 5955 characters.]  Artist bio

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The painter Giovanni Battista Castello specialised in miniatures and tempera illuminations, a field in which he showed his full technical mastery. This is evident in this exceptional illumination, a work about which the expert Elena De Laurentiis has written: "this unpublished miniature is one of the earliest known works by the artist and is characterised by a meticulous and exquisite attention to detail. The model derives from a free interpretation of Giulio Romano's fresco of the same subject in the church of San Stefano in Genoa. Castello's brilliant and refined use of colour is notable, and Laurentiis compares it to The Adoration of the Magi of 1588 (Städel M  ...  Displaying 750 of 5955 characters.

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