- Bartolomeo Biscaino
Bartolomeo Biscaino 1632-1657) was an Italian painter of the
Baroque period, active in his nativeGenoa . He was the son, and first a pupil ofGiovanni Andrea Biscaino . He afterwards became a pupil ofValerio Castelli . His career was cut short by the plague, which visitedGenoa , to which his father and himself fell victims. The Dresden gallery once held three paintings, representing "Woman taken in adultery", "Adoration by Magi", and "Circumcision of Christ".He etched several plates, in a style, recalling
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione , inclucing:
*#"Moses in bulrushes".
*#"Susannah and the Elders".
*#"Nativity with Angels".
*#"The Circumcision".
*#"The Magi’s offering".
*#"Herodias with head of St. John".
*#"Virgin and infant with Angels".
*#"Virgin suckling innfant, with St. Joseph ".
*#"Virgin suckling infant with St. Joseph. St. John with his lamb".
*#"Virgin adoring infant".
*#"The Virgin with innfant Jesus on her knee, St. John kissing his foot and St. Joseph behind".
*#"Virgin with infant Jesus standing on her knee, stretching out His arm to St. Joseph; half-length The Holy Family, with St. John holding a cross".
*#"Repose in Egypt with Angels".
*#"Infant Jesus reposing on the globe".
*#"St. Joseph with the Infant".
*#"St. Christopher giving hand to Infant Jesus".
*#"St. Christopher with Infant Jesus".
*#"Mary Magdalene in desert (1656).References
*cite book| first=Michael| last=Bryan| year=1886| title="Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical" (Volume I: A-K)| editor = Robert Edmund Graves| pages= page 130| publisher=George Bell and Sons|location=York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007 |id= |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=4GYCAAAAYAAJ&printsec=titlepage&dq=DICTIONARY+AACHEN+AALST&as_brr=1| authorlink=
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