\paperw3795 \margr0\margl0 \plain \fs20 \f1 \b IL GRECHETTO, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, called\par
\b0 Italian painter and engraver\par
(Genoa c\i .\i0 1610\i - \i0 Man
tua 1665)\par
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He was trained in Genoa under Giovan Battista Faggi and Giovanni Andrea de Ferrari, but the main influence on his style came from the works left by Van Dyck in Genoa and Poussin in Rome. He was particularly fond of biblical and pasto
ral subjects, which allowed him to devote ample space in his canvases to the realistic representation of animals and objects. He also painted religious, mythological and philosophical themes, rendered with an acute feeling for color and according to an e