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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)

Unidentified subject

c. 1635-40

RCIN 903840

The subject has been interpreted as 'The Finding of the Cup in Benjamin’s Sack', but the central figures are clearly unearthing (or burying) a large tripod. Castiglione has assimilated the almost geometrical clarity of Poussin’s compositions, and does not overload the foreground with too many figures; their gestures and expressions are varied and appropriate, with a hint of Raphael’s seminal tapestry designs of a century before. Cat. 15

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