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Explore the exhibition 'Castiglione: Lost Genius' at The Queen's Gallery, Edinburgh opening November 2014.
Castiglione: Lost Genius: The Queen's Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse
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GIOVANNI BENEDETTO CASTIGLIONE (1609-64)

The Israelites in the Wilderness(?)

c. 1640-45

RCIN 903856

At first glance this is just another ‘landscape with figures’, but in the distance an angel in a column of cloud or fire appears to a group of kneeling figures. Castiglione deploys rhythmic and strongly drawn contours within a composition that is restrained and clear overall, anticipating much of what was to follow in the 1640s. Cat. 18
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