Art Institute of Chicago

Pan Reclining before a Large Vase

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione

Date

1645–47

Medium

Etching on paper

Culture

Italy

Department

Prints and Drawings

Institution

Art Institute of Chicago

The Baroque Italian etcher and innovator par excellence, Castiglione employed his signature flourish in this oblong view of revelers regaining their strength after a bacchanal. The god Pan lies entangled with empty wine vessels; lightly stroking his panpipes as if to play, he gazes at an enormous ancient funerary vessel on a raised plinth.

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