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CASTELLO, BERNARDO (1557—1629)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 472 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CASTELLO, BERNARDO (1557—1629) , Genoese portrait and See also:historical painter, See also:born at Albaro near See also:Genoa, was the intimate friend of See also:Tasso, and took upon himself the task of designing the figures of the Gerusalemme Liberata, published in 1592; some of these subjects were engraved by See also:Agostino See also:Caracci. Besides See also:painting a number of See also:works in Genoa, mostly in a rapid and superficial See also:style, Castello was employed in See also:Rome and in the See also:court of the See also:duke of See also:Savoy.

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