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1557 Genoa, Italy - 1627 Genoa, Italy. Known for: Religious painting for churches, altarpieces, poetry illustration, frescoes.
A pupil of Andrea Semino, Bernardo Castello was also influenced by the work of Luca Cambiaso. Returning to Genoa after a trip to Ferrara in 1575, he executed a number of paintings for local churches... Read full biography
A pupil of Andrea Semino, Bernardo Castello was also influenced by the work of Luca Cambiaso. Returning to Genoa after a trip to Ferrara in 1575, he executed a number of paintings for local churches and palaces; his earliest dated work is an altarpiece for a church outside Genoa, dated 1580. Among... Read full biography
A pupil of Andrea Semino, Bernardo Castello was also influenced by the work of Luca Cambiaso. Returning to Genoa after a trip to Ferrara in 1575, he executed a number of paintings for local churches and palaces; his earliest dated work is an altarpiece for a church outside Genoa, dated 1580. Among his important decorative projects were the frescoes in the Villa Spinola and the Villa Centurione in Sampierdarena and a ceiling in the Palazzo de Franchi e Castello in Genoa. In 1586, Castello... Read full biography
A pupil of Andrea Semino, Bernardo Castello was also influenced by the work of Luca Cambiaso. Returning to Genoa after a trip to Ferrara in 1575, he executed a number of paintings for local churches and palaces; his earliest dated work is an altarpiece for a church outside Genoa, dated 1580. Among his important decorative projects were the frescoes in the Villa Spinola and the Villa Centurione in Sampierdarena and a ceiling in the Palazzo de Franchi e Castello in Genoa. In 1586, Castello designed a frontispiece and twenty illustrations for an edition of Torquato Tasso’s epic poem Gerusalemme Liberata, published in Genoa in 1590 with great success. The illustrations established Castello’s reputation, and pleased Tasso so much that he wrote... Read full biography
A pupil of Andrea Semino, Bernardo Castello was also influenced by the work of Luca Cambiaso. Returning to Genoa after a trip to Ferrara in 1575, he executed a number of paintings for local churches and palaces; his earliest dated work is an altarpiece for a church outside Genoa, dated 1580. Among his important decorative projects were the frescoes in the Villa Spinola and the Villa Centurione in Sampierdarena and a ceiling in the Palazzo de Franchi e Castello in Genoa. In 1586, Castello designed a frontispiece and twenty illustrations for an edition of Torquato Tasso’s epic poem Gerusalemme Liberata, published in Genoa in 1590 with great success. The illustrations established Castello’s reputation, and pleased Tasso so much that he wrote a sonnet in honour of the artist. Three further editions of the poem, again accompanied by Castello’s illustrations, were publis... Read full biography