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Parting of Abraham and Lot
1610s17th century
20.9 cm x 30.7 cm (8 1/4 in. x 12 1/16 in.)
Bernardo Castello (Albaro [Genoa], 1557 - 1629, Genoa) Primary
Object Type:
drawing
Artist Nationality:
Europe, Italian
Medium and Support:
Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash over traces of black chalk
Credit Line:
Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, The Suida-Manning Collection, 2017
Accession Number:
2017.1011
The most conservative Genoese painter of late century, Castello translated the later style of his teacher, Cambiaso, into an even more self-consciously neutral one based upon early 16th-century examples and suited to Counter-Reformation dictates as well as book illustration. This drawing renders Abraham’s proposal to Lot that they settle their differences by parting ways (Genesis 13: 5-9). Its or-derly composition, patient articulation, and clear narration are characteristic of the artist’s work.
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