Circe with Companions of Ulysses Changed into Animals

Art Institute of Chicago

Circe with Companions of Ulysses Changed into Animals

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione

Date
1650–51
Medium
Etching, touched with graphite, on ivory paper
Culture
Italy
Department
Prints and Drawings
Institution
Art Institute of Chicago

Castiglione was a prolific painter, etcher, and draftsman who left his native Genoa around 1630 for Rome, where he made contact with important Baroque artists, such as Nicolas Poussin and Pietro Testa.

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Object type
AAT300041273

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