Parting of Abraham and Lot
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Bernardo Castello
(Albaro, Genoa, Italy, 1557–Genoa, Italy, 1629)
NationalityItalian, Europe
Date1610s
MediumPen and brown ink with brush and brown wash over traces of black chalk
DimensionsSheet: 8 1/4 × 12 1/16 in. (20.9 × 30.7 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, The Suida-Manning Collection, 2017.1011
Rights Statement
Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number2017.1011
On View
Not on viewThe most conservative Genoese painter of late century, Castello translated the later style of his teacher, Cambiaso, into an even more self-consciously neutral one based upon early 16th-century examples and suited to Counter-Reformation dictates as well as book illustration. This drawing renders Abraham’s proposal to Lot that they settle their differences by parting ways (Genesis 13: 5-9). Its or-derly composition, patient articulation, and clear narration are characteristic of the artist’s work.
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