Minerva (recto and verso)
Primary
Giovanni Battista Castello, called Bergamasco
(Gandino, Italy, 1525–Madrid, Spain, 1569)
NationalityItalian, Europe
Datecirca 1560-62
MediumPen and brown ink over black chalk
DimensionsSheet: 8 1/8 × 5 1/2 in. (20.6 × 13.9 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, The Suida-Manning Collection, 2017.907
Keywords
Rights Statement
Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number2017.907
On View
Not on viewDuring the 1560s, Bergamasco collaborated so closely and constantly with Genoa’s most advanced native artist, Luca Cambiaso, and they so influenced one another that their styles in painting and drawing can be difficult to distinguish. Similar to a motif in the decoration of the Palazzo Imperiale di piazza Campetto, this study evinces that collaboration and influence in its swift and approximative calligraphy.
Exhibitions
Attributed to Valerio Castello
1647
Circle of Giovanni Battista Piranesi
1745
Attributed to Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione
1630
Attributed to Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione
1630
