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Giorgio De Chirico. Il volto della metafisica.
Genova, Palazzo Ducale, March 29 - July 7, 2019.
Edited by Noel-Johnson V.
Milano, 2019; bound, pp. 246, col. ill., cm 24x29.
(Arte Moderna. Cataloghi).
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Giorgio De Chirico. Il volto della metafisica.
Genova, Palazzo Ducale, March 29 - July 7, 2019.
Edited by Noel-Johnson V.
Milano, 2019; bound, pp. 246, col. ill., cm 24x29.
(Arte Moderna. Cataloghi).
FREE (cover price: € n.d.)
Giorgio de Chirico. Nulla Sine Tragoedia Gloria
Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi - Auditorium Dell'Iri, Roma, October 15 - October 16, 1999.
Edited by Claudio Crescentini and Crescentini C.
Co-Editore: Associazione Culturale Shakespeare and Company 2.
Montecatini Terme, 2002; paperback, pp. 504, 188 b/w ill., 21 col. plates, cm 21x30.
(Shakespeare and Company. 2).
FREE (cover price: € 75.00)
Mutazioni. Segni e sogni del XX secolo. Da de Chirico a de Maria
Gavirate, Chiostro di Voltorre, February 23 - April 27, 2003.
Milano, 2003; paperback, pp. 108, ill., tavv., cm 16x22,5.
(Biblioteca d'Arte).
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Georges Rouault, Giorgio De Chirico
Mosummano Terme, Villa Renatico Martini, November 23, 2003 - February 15, 2004.
Lyon, La Spirale, October 4 - October 31, 2004.
Edited by Cassinelli P., Giori M. and Viggiano D.
Italian and French Text.
Ospedaletto, 2004; paperback, pp. 150, b/w ill., b/w plates, cm 17x24.
FREE (cover price: € 13.00)
Valerio Castello
Manzitti Camillo
Umberto Allemandi & C.
Torino, 2004; bound, pp. 290, b/w ill., 28 col. plates, cm 22x31,5.
(Archivi di Arte Antica).
series: Archivi di Arte Antica
ISBN: 88-422-1159-1 - EAN13: 9788842211594
Subject: Essays (Art or Architecture),Monographs (Painting and Drawing)
Period: 1400-1800 (XV-XVIII) Renaissance
Places: Ligurian
Extra: Frescoes
Languages: 
Weight: 1.74 kg
Draftsman, Painter
Italian
"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. Tragically, Castello died suddenly at the height of a brilliant career.
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 and studied works by painters known for their emotional power and vivid colors. Feeling confined by his local teachers' interest in naturalism and narrative, Castello left for Milan and Parma. There, he scrutinized works by artists who bent nature in the service of expressiveness.
Patrons admired Castello's paintings of mythological and religious subjects as well as his lively oil sketches. His lively frescoes of glowing color and dramatic illusionism in various Genoese palaces made him most famous. His style united elegant figures with dramatic, violent compositions composed of spontaneous brushwork and vibrant colors. His thriving workshop's pupils included Bartolomeo Biscaino.
