Salvatore Castiglione (21 April 1620 – 1676) was an Italian painter of the

Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

period. He was born in

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, the brother and pupil of

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (baptized 23 March 16095 May 1664) was an Italian Baroque painter, printmaker and draftsman, of the Genoese school. He is best known now for his etchings, and as the inventor of the printmaking technique of monotypi ...

, and he painted landscapes and pastoral subjects. He also completed a highly finished etching representing the '’Resurrection of Lazarus’' (1645).

Sources

* • Jaco Rutgers, 'Not Giovanni Benedetto but Salvatore Castiglione', ''Print Quarterly'', vol. XXI, no. 2, June 2004, pp. 163–164. 1620 births 1676 deaths Artists from Genoa 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Italian engravers Italian Baroque painters {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub