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Felice Palma. Massa 1583-1625. Collezione / Collection.
Texts by Claudio Casini, Andrei Cristina, Ciarlo Nicola, Federici Fabrizio and Sara Ragni.
Italian and English Text.
Pontedera, 2024; bound in a case, pp. 289, b/w and col. ill., b/w and col. plates, cm 24,5x34.
(L'Oro Bianco. Straordinari Dimenticati. The White Gold Forgotten Masters).
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Felice Palma. Massa 1583-1625. Collezione / Collection.
Texts by Claudio Casini, Andrei Cristina, Ciarlo Nicola, Federici Fabrizio and Sara Ragni.
Italian and English Text.
Pontedera, 2024; bound in a case, pp. 289, b/w and col. ill., b/w and col. plates, cm 24,5x34.
(L'Oro Bianco. Straordinari Dimenticati. The White Gold Forgotten Masters).
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Le botteghe del marmo
Italian and English Text.
Ospedaletto, 1992; bound, pp. 153, 10 b/w ill., 60 col. ill., cm 24x29.
(Immagine).
FREE (cover price: € 34.49)
Museo Stefano Bardini. I Bronzetti e gli Oggetti d'Uso in Bronzo
Edited by Nesi A.
Firenze, 2009; paperback, pp. 191, 102 b/w ill., 7 col. ill., cm 17x24,5.
(Museo Stefano Bardini).
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Bronzetti e Rilievi dal XV al XVIII Secolo
Bologna, 2015; 2 vols., bound in a case, pp. 729, ill., col. plates, cm 21,5x30,5.
FREE (cover price: € 90.00)
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.
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