# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/giovanni-benedetto-castiglione
# Generated: 2026-08-16T08:24:27.598Z

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name: "Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione"
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description: "Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione was an Italian Baroque painter, printmaker and draftsman, of the Genoese school. He is best known now for his etchings, and as the inventor of the printmaking technique of monotyping. He was known as Il Grechetto in Italy and in France as Le Benédette."
tagline: "Italian Baroque artist, painter, printmaker and draftsman"
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birthDate: "1609"
deathDate: "1664-05-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump