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CASTELLO, GIOVANNI BATTISTA (1500 ?–1569 ?) , See also:

ITALIAN

Italian See also:

HISTORICAL

historical painter, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born near See also:

Bergamo in 1500 or perhaps 1509, and is hence ordinarily termed Il Bergamasco. He belongs, however, to the school of See also:

GENOA (anc. Genua, Ital. Genova, Fr. GPnes)

Genoa, but does not appear to have had any See also:

FAMILY

family relationship with the other two painters named Castello, also noticed here. He was employed to decorate the Nunziata di Portoria in Genoa, the See also:

SALOON

saloon of the See also:

LANZI, LUIGI (1732–1810)

Lanzi See also:

PALACE (Lat. Palatium, the name given by Augustus to his residence on the Palatine Hill)

Palace at Gorlago, and the Pardo Palace in See also:

Spain. His best-known See also:

WORKS

works are the " Martyrdom of St See also:

Sebastian," and the picture of " See also:

Christ as See also:

JUDGE (Lat. judex, Fr. juge)

Judge of the See also:

WORLD

World " on one of the vaultings of the Annunziata. He was an architect and sculptor as well as painter. In 1567 he was invited to See also:

MADRID

Madrid by See also:

Philip II., and there he died, holding the See also:

OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office of architect of the royal palaces. The date of See also:

DEATH

death (as of See also:

BIRTH (a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages from the root of the verb " to bear ")

birth) is differently stated as 1569 or 1579.

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