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Explore the exhibition 'Castiglione: Lost Genius' at The Queen's Gallery, Edinburgh opening November 2014.
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GIOVANNI BENEDETTO CASTIGLIONE (1609-64)

A group of figures in terror or adoration

c. 1655

RCIN 903913

The drawing may have no specific subject, and the absence of any pictorial context and its unfinished state suggest that it was simply an exercise in sketching figures in a variety of extreme attitudes. Cat. 72

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