This exhibition is in the past. View our current exhibitions.
GIOVANNI BENEDETTO CASTIGLIONE (1609-64)
The Raising of Lazarus
c. 1660RCIN 903834
Although the touch is unquestionably Castiglione’s, some aspects of the style are unfamiliar, such as the short zigzags in the background and the silhouetting of figure against figure, set further back in space. It may be that limited mobility was forcing him to experiment with a new graphic vocabulary.
Cat. 87
