Castiglione & the Genoa School of Art
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Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione was a Genoese artist who lived in the seventeenth century. He was born in 1609 and died in either 1663 or 1665. Castiglione's "Noah's Sacrifice after the Deluge" is an oil on canvas painted about 1650 and presently housed at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Castiglione was a painter, etcher, and draughtsman, and his style of painting derived in part from that of Rubens, van Dyck, and Bernardo Strozzi, all of whom worked in Genoa. His etchings owe something to Rembrandt. Castiglione was open to foreign influence, as can be seen, and this was unusual for an Italian artist of this era (Chilvers, Osborne and Farr 97). His "Noah's Sacrifice after the Deluge" demonstrates certain of his techniques, some of the concerns of the artist and of his era, and some of the social, religious, political, and aesthetic currents within which this work was painted. Davenport notes a number of the major shifts taking place during the Seventeenth Century. She notes that this was a period of alteration and realignment as royal prerogative gained over feudal power so that the lord's responsibility for his people was weakened, shifting responsibility to the people themselves to a much greater degree. This was the era of the rise of new types of guild. The old, vertically-composed craft guilds broke into separate entities of merchant-employers and journeymen hired-help. This was also the era of the rise of Protestantism, another force tending toward gre
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to the arts with both historical and critical meanings. It now designates the dominant style of European art between Mannerism and Rococo. The Baroque originated in Italy. It is a style with a concern for balance and wholeness, and balance is achieved through the harmony of the parts in subordination to the whole. There is an ambition toward grand unity. The unity of the Baroque involves gaining the participation of the beholder:
For painting and sculpture to succeed in doing this at all they must first be persuasive in creating the illusion of the actuality and truth of their subject. the baroque representation is, then, concerned with the reality of appearances, or at least with their verisimilitude (Chilvers, Osborne, and Farr 39).
The native school in Genoa emphasized naturalism, itself a dedication to verisimilitude and images from the real world. Castiglione also had a dedication to still life that is apparent in "Noah's Sacrifice after the Deluge," and in many of his paintings the details of a still life are given more attention than the primary subject. The focus of this picture is on the animals and objects that have been taken off the ark. This is immediately after the flood, and the ark is being unloaded of
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