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(2) Salvatore Castiglione
(b Genoa, 21 April 1620; d 1676). Printmaker, painter, writer and courtier, brother of (1) Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione. Besides working for his brother, he acted as secretary to Carlo II Gonzaga, 9th Duke of Mantua. Salvatore’s life is sparsely documented: his formative years were spent with his older brother in Rome (documented in 1634 and again in 1647). In 1645 he made an etching, the Raising of Lazarus (P E30; see fig.), and this, and the preparatory drawing for it (Switzerland, priv. col., see 1972 exh. cat., no. 169a), are the only two firmly attributed and dated works by Salvatore. For his early biographers his merit rested in his ability to imitate his brother’s style, yet these two works are stylistically quite distinct from any by Giovanni Benedetto. Salvatore was in Turin in October 1656, when he wrote an opuscule addressed to Giovan Filippo Spinola of Genoa, and he is first recorded in Mantua on 18 April 1659.
Part of the Castiglione family
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