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Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione

Circe with Companions of Ulysses Changed into Animals

1650–51
Etching, touched with graphite, on ivory paper
21.8 × 30.8 cm (8.6 × 12.1 in)

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FROM THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO’S CATALOG

Castiglione was a prolific painter, etcher, and draftsman who left his native Genoa around 1630 for Rome, where he made contact with important Baroque artists, such as Nicolas Poussin and Pietro Testa.

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