The Genius of Castiglione, ca. 1645–47 (published 1648), Etching, sheet: 17 13/16 x 14 3/4 in. (45.2 x 37.5 cm), Prints, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto) (Italian, Genoa 1609–1664 Mantua), In Castiglione’s most famous etching, a reclining figure holds a book inscribed: “The genius of Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione of Genoa [who] invented and made [this].” The print was published in Rome in 1648 by Gian Giacomo de’ Rossi, who dedicated it to Matthijs van de Merwede, a Dutch nobleman who spent time in Italy between 1647 and 1650
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