Record details

• generalData.authorNameInListings

  Giovanni Battista Castello, llamado Il Bergamasco el Bergamasco (1526 o 1527-1569)

• generalData.title

  La Paz, an encounter between two characters

• generalData.creationDate

  c. 1560

• technicalData.measurements

  200 x 285 mm

• technicalData.description

  Pen and brown ink wash.
  Inscription in pencil with modern writing in the lower central part: "Bergamasco".

• technicalData.complementaryDescription

  Giovanni Battista was a versatile artist—architect, painter, sculptor, designer of stuccos, tapestries and engravings—and one of the great Italian artists of the mid-16th century, who knew how to capture the desire for magnificence of the rich merchant nobility of Genoa during a period of great architectural renewal of the city.
  This drawing, made using a light and very fast graphic ductus, represents the meeting of two characters surrounded by soldiers: perhaps it shows the scene of reconciliation between the heads of two opposing factions shaking hands in a sign of peace. The graphic delicacy and pictorial nature of the composition suggest that this drawing could be the initial study for a fresco rather than an easel painting, although there is no evidence of any work by Castello in this regard.