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GIOVANNI BATTISTA CASTELLO (1500 ?–15...

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 472 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CASTELLO (1500 ?–1569 ?)  , 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 . He belongs, however, to the school of See also: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 . He was employed to decorate the Nunziata di Portoria in Genoa, the See also:saloon of the See also:Lanzi See also:Palace at Gorlago, and the Pardo Palace in See also:Spain . His best-known See also:works are the " Martyrdom of St See also:Sebastian," and the picture of " See also:Christ as See also:Judge of the See also: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 by See also:Philip II., and there he died, holding the See also:office of architect of the royal palaces . The date of See also:death (as of See also:birth) is differently stated as 1569 or 1579 .

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