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(1) Bernardo Castello
(b Genoa, ?1557; d Genoa, 4 Oct 1629). Painter and draughtsman. His first teacher was Andrea Semino, but Luca Cambiaso was more important to his development. He remained faithful throughout his career to Cambiaso’s artistic style, reworking it competently but superficially. The result is a pleasant, skilful style of painting that adapts 16th-century Venetian, Tusco-Roman and Genoese traditions to the simplified compositions and clear narratives favoured by the Catholic Counter-Reformation. He and Giovanni Battista Paggi were the principal Genoese artists between the period dominated by Cambiaso (who left for Madrid in 1583) and the birth of the 17th-century modern school of painting.
Part of the Castello (ii) family
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