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GIOVANNI BATTISTA See also: Italian See also: historical painter, was See also: born near See also: Bergamo in 1500 or perhaps 1509, and is hence ordinarily termed Il Bergamasco
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He belongs, however, to the school of Genoa, but does not appear to have had any See also: family relationship with the other two painters named See also: Castello, also noticed here
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He was employed to decorate the Nunziata di Portoria in Genoa, the See also: saloon of the See also: Lanzi Palace at Gorlago, and the Pardo Palace in See also: Spain
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His best-known See also: works are the " Martyrdom of St See also: Sebastian," and the picture of " Christ as See also: Judge of the See also: World " on one of the vaultings of the Annunziata
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He was an architect and sculptor as well as painter
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In 1567 he was invited to See also: Madrid by See also: Philip II., and there he died, holding the office of architect of the royal palaces
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The date of
See also: death (as of See also: birth) is differently stated as 1569 or 1579
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