The Raising of Lazarus
| Reference: | S5341 |
| Author | Salvatore CASTIGLIONE |
| Year: | 1645 |
| Measures: | 212 x 112 mm |
€625.00
| Reference: | S5341 |
| Author | Salvatore CASTIGLIONE |
| Year: | 1645 |
| Measures: | 212 x 112 mm |
€625.00
Description
Etching, 1645, signed and dated on the plate at the lower left.
A fine impression of the only state, on contemporary laid paper, trimmed on the platemark or with narrow margins, generally in very good conditions.
Brother of Giovanni Benedetto, whose artistic carrier and interests he took care of, Salvatore Castiglione made his only graphic work, at the age of twenty-five.
Today the plate is conserved at the Calcografia Nazionale of Rome, while the preparatory drawing belongs to a private collection.
Provenance: John Tetlow (Lugt 2868)
Literature
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Bartsch 1.
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Salvatore CASTIGLIONE (Genova 1620 - dopo il 1676)
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Printmaker, painter, writer and courtier, brother of Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione. Besides working for his brother, he acted as secretary to Carlo II Gonzaga, 9th Duke of Mantua. Salvatore’s life is sparsely documented: his formative years were spent with his older brother in Rome (documented in 1634 and again in 1647). In 1645 he made an etching, the Raising of Lazarus, and this, and the preparatory drawing for it, are the only two firmly attributed and dated works by Salvatore. For his early biographers his merit rested in his ability to imitate his brother’s style, yet these two works are stylistically quite distinct from any by Giovanni Benedetto. Salvatore was in Turin in October 1656, when he wrote an opuscule addressed to Giovan Filippo Spinola of Genoa, and he is first recorded in Mantua on 18 April 1659.
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Literature
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Bartsch 1.
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Salvatore CASTIGLIONE (Genova 1620 - dopo il 1676)
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Printmaker, painter, writer and courtier, brother of Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione. Besides working for his brother, he acted as secretary to Carlo II Gonzaga, 9th Duke of Mantua. Salvatore’s life is sparsely documented: his formative years were spent with his older brother in Rome (documented in 1634 and again in 1647). In 1645 he made an etching, the Raising of Lazarus, and this, and the preparatory drawing for it, are the only two firmly attributed and dated works by Salvatore. For his early biographers his merit rested in his ability to imitate his brother’s style, yet these two works are stylistically quite distinct from any by Giovanni Benedetto. Salvatore was in Turin in October 1656, when he wrote an opuscule addressed to Giovan Filippo Spinola of Genoa, and he is first recorded in Mantua on 18 April 1659.
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