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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)

Studies of dromedaries and goats

c. 1630

RCIN 903945

This is perhaps the earliest surviving work by Castiglione. Like most young artists, he would have learned to draw by copying established motifs – dromedaries were not to be found in even as cosmopolitan a city as Genoa.

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