All the oil paintings of CASTIGLIONE, Giovanni Benedetto

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ID	Image	Painting(From A to Z)	Details
20496		Adoration of the Shepherds (mk05)	Copper 27 x 20 1/2''(68 x 52 cm)Acquired for the collection of Louis XV in 1742 INV in 1742
20495		Christ Chasing the Moneylenders from the Temple (mk05)	Canvas 39 1/4 x 49''(100 x 124 cm)Acquired for Louis XV in 1742
5960		Christ Chasing the Moneylenders from the Temple f	Oil on canvas Mus??e du Louvre, Paris
58348		Embrace the glory of the Son and Our Lady of Angels	Mantova mk261 years 1510-1515 oil on canvas 20 x 16.5 cm
77480		Entrada dos Animais na Arca de Noe	1650-64. Óleo sobre tela, 150 x 221 cm. Acervo do Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. Date 1650 - 1664 cyf
67693		Fable of Diogenes	Year mid-17th century Technique Oil on canvas Dimensions 97 X 145 cm
5962		Meeting of Isaac and Rebecca fg	Oil on canvas, 124 x 175 cm The Hermitage, St. Petersburg
42037		The adoracion of the pastore	mk166 1663-1665 I Wave on copper 68x52cm Museum of the Louvre, Paris
5961		The Fable of Diogenes	Oil on canvas, 97 x 145 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid
5963		The Miracle of Soriano fg	1655 Oil on canvas, 319 x 204 cm Santa Maria della Cella, Genoa
42040		The rest in the flight to Egypt	mk166 1618 I Wave on cloth 205x186cm Uffizi, Florence

CASTIGLIONE, Giovanni Benedetto
Italian Baroque Era Painter, ca.1609-1664 Painter, printmaker and draughtsman. Most of his works are scenes of the journeys of the patriarchs (e.g. Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob), drawn from the book of Genesis and filled with animals and still-life detail. His oeuvre also, however, includes many spectacular mythological and religious compositions set in expansive landscapes, and for these he found inspiration in Classical mythology, ancient history, Aesop's Fables, 16th-century Italian literature and the lives of the saints. Early biographers claim that he was also a prolific portrait painter, but few examples, save the so-called portrait of Gianlorenzo Bernini (c. 1648-50; Genoa, Pal. Bianco), have been conclusively identified. His surviving subjects reveal his interest in magic and metamorphosis and in philosophical questions such as the frailty of human life, the inevitability of death and the search for truth.