With this lavishly illustrated biography, leading Castiglione scholar Timothy J. Standring and curator Martin Clayton and seek to restore to prominence this forgotten master of the Italian Baroque. Drawing on extensive new research into court records and other documents of the time, Standring and Clayton have reconstructed the artist’s life, from his arrest for murder that led to the estrangement of his contemporaries and the loss of valuable patrons to his eventual decision to flee the region. The story of Castiglione’s life and important new discoveries about his art are presented here alongside one hundred brilliant reproductions of his oil sketches.
Published to accompany a major exhibition that will debut at the Queen’s Gallery, London, and travel to the Denver Art Museum in May 2015, Castiglione: Lost Genius is the first new publication on Castiglione in decades, and it is sure to bring his first-rate work and fascinating life to the forefront.
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176 pages | 100 color plates | 9 3/4 x 9 | © 2013
Art: Art--Biography

Reviews
Table of Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgements
INTRODUCTION
YOUTH: Genoa, 1609-c. 1630
DEVELOPMENT: Rome, c. 1630-c. 1637
MATURITY: Genoa and Rome, c. 1637-1652
RECOGNITION: Genoa, 1652-1659
LAST YEARS: Mainly Genoa and Mantua, 1659-1664
Bibliography
Concordance
Index
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