Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto) – Roman Landscape with a Shepherd and Sheep – The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/816621
The Artist: Castiglione’s artistic sensibility was deeply impacted by Flemish painters active in Genoa, the Italian port city where he was born in 1609. Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) worked in Genoa around 1606 and Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641) arrived in 1621, opening a studio that Castiglione quickly joined
light, ancient architecture in the distance, and shepherd’s costume (inflected by theater
