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Castiglione & the Genoa School of Art

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 greater personal responsibility, a form of individualism fueled by such democratizing forces as the invention of printing. Previously, the bible had been a possession of the higher levels of the Church alone, and a monk, who might read his breviary, had to have permission of a superior to read the Bible. A layman could neither hope to own nor read a manuscript Bible, but with printing it was possible that anyone could own a Bible. When people could read on their ...

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