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 *ful and correct style. Was the friend of Tasso, for whose Gerusalemme he made the designs engraved in part by Agostino Carracci, and was eulogized by him. In 1604 he was called to Rome and painted for St. Peter's the Calling of St. Peter, for which a picture by Lanfranco was afterward substituted. His works are mostly in the churches of Genoa and its neighbourhood. Had three sons, Giovanni Maria, Bernardino, and Valerio, all painters.—Soprani, 115; Lanzi, iii. 250; Ch. Blanc, École génoise.

CASTELLO, CASTELLINO, born in Genoa in 1579, died in Turin in 1649. Genoese school; pupil of Gio. Battista Paggi. Painted many pictures for churches in Genoa and elsewhere, but most noted for his portraits. When Van Dyck visited Genoa, he and Castello reciprocally painted each other's portraits. In 1647 he was appointed portrait painter to the court of Savoy, and removed to Turin. His son Niccolò, who was living in 1668, inherited his ability.—Lanzi, iii. 262; Ch. Blanc, École génoise; Soprani, 125.

CASTELLO, FABRICIO, died in Madrid in 1617. Spanish school; son of Giambattista Castello (Il Bergamasco) and pupil of his elder brother, Nicolas Granelo Castello. Painted frescos in the Escorial and the Pardo, and became painter to Philip II. in 1584, and also to Philip III.—Stirling, i. 192; Cean Bermudez.

CASTELLO, FELIX, born in Madrid in 1602, died there in 1656. Spanish school; pupil of his father Fabricio Castello and of Vincenzo Carducho; painted historical compositions and portraits. Works: Capture of a Dutch Fortress by Spaniards, and Disembarkation of Don Fadrique de Toledo at S. Salvador, Madrid Museum.—Cean Bermudez; Quilliet; Madrazo, 378.

CASTELLO, GIAMBATTISTA. See Bergamasco.

CASTELLO, NICOLAS GRANELO, died in Madrid in 1593. Spanish school; son and pupil of Giambattista Castello (Il Bergamasco). Named painter to Philip II. in 1571; executed in 1584, with Taboron and Cambiaso, in the Escorial, a fresco of the Battle of St. Quentin, and in 1587, with Taboron, the Battle of Higuernela; also painted other frescos in ducal palace at Alba de Tornus.—Stirling, i. 192; Cean Bermudez.

CASTELLO, VALERIO, born in Genoa in 1625, died there in 1659. Genoese school; son of Bernardo Castello; pupil of Gio. Andrea de' Ferrari and of Il Sarzana; studied works of masters in Milan and Parma. Formed an excellent style of his own; painted in both oil and fresco, but excelled in latter. Subjects chiefly religious, but painted also battles. Works in churches and palaces in Genoa. His Rape of the Sabines is in the Palazzo Brignole-Sale, Genoa; a smaller example, somewhat varied, in the Uffizi.—Lanzi, iii. 259; Ch. Blanc, École génoise.

CASTIGLIONE, BALDASSARE, Count, portrait, Raphael, Louvre; wood transferred to canvas, H. 2 ft. 8 in. × 2 ft. 2 in. Half-length, three-quarters, turned to left, with beard and moustaches; in black vest and cap and gray doublet. Painted in Rome about 1516; passed from Collection of Duke of Mantua to Charles I. of England, after whose death bought by Lopez of Amsterdam. Copied at this time by Rubens; Rembrandt also made a sketch of it, now in Albertine Collection, Vienna, and R. Persyn engraved it. Passed to Cardinal Mazarin, from whose heirs bought for Louis XIV. Another portrait by Raphael, bust, painted in 1519, probably that in Torlonia Gallery, Rome. Louvre picture engraved by J.