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| Valerio Castello Glorification of the Balbi Family before 1659 ceiling fresco Palazzo Reale, Genoa |
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| Valerio Castello Finding of Moses before 1659 drawing British Museum |
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| Valerio Castello Finding of Moses before 1659 oil on canvas Jersey Museum and Art Gallery (Great Britain) |
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| Valerio Castello Moses striking Water from the Rock before 1659 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Valerio Castello Flight into Egypt before 1659 oil on canvas private collection |
"'From foreign countries, including all of France, orders for his pictures came to Genoa, and this raised their prices too high for words', wrote Valerio Castello's biographer in 1674. By passionately studying a vast range of sources, Castello formed a unique, sophisticated artistic style. Born to a family of painters, the young artist copied drawings in his late father's studio [Bernardo Castello having died when his son was six]. . . . Feeling confined by his local teachers' interest in naturalism and narrative, Valerio Castello left for Milan and Parma. There, he scrutinized works by artists who bent nature in the service of expressiveness. Returning to Genoa, he embarked on an extremely productive career producing both easel paintings and palace frescoes, but this work was cut short after scarcely more than a decade by the painter's early death."
– adapted from curator's notes at the Getty Museum
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| Valerio Castello Holy Family with infant St John the Baptist before 1659 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Valerio Castello Holy Family with infant St John the Baptist ca. 1646 oil on canvas Accademia Ligustica di Belle Arti, Genoa |
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| Valerio Castello Miracle of the Roses ca. 1651-52 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Valerio Castello Adoration of the Shepherds ca. 1655 oil on canvas Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco |
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| Valerio Castello Virgin and Child with St Peter and St Paul appearing to St Bruno before 1659 oil on canvas Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham (West Midlands) |
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| Valerio Castello Virgin and Child with the infant St John the Baptist and Angels before 1659 drawing Princeton University Art Museum |
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| attributed to Valerio Castello Study for The Annunciation before 1659 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Valerio Castello Presentation of the Virgin before 1659 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Valerio Castello Virgin and Child with the infant St John the Baptist ca. 1650 oil on canvas National Gallery, London |
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| Valerio Castello Tobias healing the blind Tobit before 1659 oil on canvas Ferens Art Gallery, Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire |