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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 heads

c. 1635-40

RCIN 903944

Castiglione is the first artist in Italy known to have borrowed directly from the etchings of Rembrandt. He was particularly attracted to the Dutch artist’s nocturnal scenes and his expressiveness, and here he copied the five heads at the left from Rembrandt’s large Ecce Homo of 1636. The exotic figure to the right, while not a direct copy, is also very much in the manner of Rembrandt’s ‘character heads’. Cat. 11

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