Melancholia

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Melancholia

1640s

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (called il Grechetto) (Italian, 1609–1664)

Castiglione was a unique creative figure of the Italian Baroque, inventing the monotype print process as well as the distinctive kind of work on paper seen here, made with a brush and directly combining linseed oil with rather coarsely ground reddish-brown or brown dry pigment. These drawings were intended as finished works and not as preparatory studies.

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Object Details

Title:

Melancholia

Date:

1640s

Artist:

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (called il Grechetto) (Italian, 1609–1664)

Medium:

Brush and red-brown oil paint on laid paper

Dimensions:

Sheet: 11 1/8 × 16 1/8 inches (28.3 × 41 cm)

Classification:

Drawings

Credit Line:

The Muriel and Philip Berman Gift, acquired from the Matthew Carey Lea bequest of 1898 to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, with funds contributed by Muriel and Philip Berman and the Edgar Viguers Seeler Fund (by exchange), 1984

Accession Number:

1984-56-39

Geography:

Made in Italy, Europe

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