Wednesday, May 29, 2019

Valerio Castello (1624-1659) - Genoa - II

Valerio Castello
Beheading of St John the Baptist
ca. 1645
oil on canvas
Pinacoteca del Castello Sforzesco, Milan

Valerio Castello
Death of Lucretia
1650
oil on canvas
Pinacoteca Civica, Palazzo Mazzetti, Asti

Valerio Castello
Abduction of Helen
1650
oil on canvas
Pinacoteca Civica, Palazzo Mazzetti, Asti

Valerio Castello
Christ and the Woman taken in Adultery
ca. 1650
oil on canvas
Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon 

from The Everlasting Gospel

Was Jesus Chaste, or did he
Give any Lessons of Chastity?
The morning blush'd fiery red:
Mary was found in Adulterous bed;
Earth groan'd beneath, & Heaven above
Trembled at discovery of Love.
Jesus was sitting in Moses' Chair,
They brought the trembling Woman There.
Moses commands she be ston'd to death:
What was the sound of Jesus' breath?
He laid His hand on Moses' Law;
The Ancient Heavens, in Silent Awe,
Writ with Curses from Pole to Pole,
All away began to roll.
The Earth, trembling & Naked lay
In secret bed of Mortal Clay,
On Sinai felt the hand divine
Putting back the bloody shrine,
And She heard the breath of God
As She heard by Eden's flood,
"Good & Evil are no more!
Sinai's trumpets, cease to roar!
Cease, finger of God, to write!
The Heavens are not clean in thy Sight.
Thou art Good, & thou Alone;
Nor may the sinner cast one stone.
To be Good only is to be
A God or else a Pharisee."

– William Blake (ca. 1818)

Valerio Castello
Judith and Holofernes
before 1659
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Valerio Castello
Agony in the Garden
ca. 1645
drawing
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Valerio Castello
Abduction of Ganymede
before 1659
drawing
British Museum

Valerio Castello
Sacrifice to Diana
ca. 1645
drawing
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Valerio Castello
Diana and Actaeon with Pan and Syrinx
ca. 1650-55
oil on canvas
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida

Valerio Castello
Legend of St Geneviève of Brabant
ca. 1652
oil on canvas
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut

Valerio Castello
Sacrifice of Noah
ca. 1650-59
oil on canvas
private collection

Valerio Castello
Joseph and Potiphar's Wife
before 1659
oil on canvas
Burghley House, Stamford, Lincolnshire

attributed to Valerio Castello
The Perdono of St Francis (Apparition of Christ)
ca. 1645-55
drawing
Yale University Art Gallery

Valerio Castello
Design for Title Page with Allegorical Figures
before 1659
drawing
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Valerio Castello
Two Woman supporting a Recumbent Figure
before 1659
drawing
National Galleries of Scotland