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Explore the exhibition 'Castiglione: Lost Genius' at The Queen's Gallery, Edinburgh opening November 2014.
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GIOVANNI BENEDETTO CASTIGLIONE (1609-64)

The Nativity with God the Father and Angels

c. 1650

RCIN 830452

The radiant light emanating from both the Christ Child and God the Father illuminates the attendant angels, one swinging a censer. In the gloom at lower right, classical ruins symbolise the overthrow of the old order.

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