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‘Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione also began his career in Genoa and, after a period in Rome, became court painter in Mantua from 1648[ce], where his brilliant free etchings & brush drawings anticipated the Rococo.’

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*– ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 25:] 353

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