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Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione

Pan Reclining before a Large Vase

1645–47
Etching on paper
11.5 × 21.4 cm (4.5 × 8.4 in)

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FROM THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO’S CATALOG

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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