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GIOVANNI BENEDETTO CASTIGLIONE (1609-64)
The Nativity with God the Father and Angels
c. 1650RCIN 830452
The radiant light emanating from both the Christ Child and God the Father illuminates the attendant angels, one swinging a censer. In the gloom at lower right, classical ruins symbolise the overthrow of the old order.