Giovanni benedetto castiglione monotypes and monoprints play

A history on the development of monoprints and monotypes. Although we don't have a recorded history of the origin of monoprinting, we can trace early stages in which the proofing of intaglio prints can be associated to today's method of producing a monoprint. One of the early artists who experimented with printing in color, on unusual papers as well as on linen, and with odd horizontal formats to emphasize the horizon, was a Dutch painter and etcher of stark, fantastic landscapes called Hercules Seghers Hercules Seghers The Enclosed Valley.

Etching with washes Most of his images differ widely from impression to impression, and most are preserved in only a few sheets. His eccentric and irregular linework of short strokes is matched by the non-Dutch topography of his subjects.

Giovanni benedetto castiglione monotypes and monoprints play: Castiglione was an inventor ahead

His etchings belong to the most original and impressive experiments in the history of printmaking. Not only did he use inks of different colours and often printed on coloured or dyed paper, but the diversity of individual prints was increased by his adding accents by hand. Seghers' paintings are rare; few are documented, and many forgeries exist.

Rembrandt owned several of his paintings and was obviously influenced by his landscapes. Benedetto Castiglione Benedetto Castiglione was another unique artist who etched in a free, spirited, and effective style more than seventy plates, and so skillfully managed the light and shade that many of them have the effect of aquatint.

Unlike his Italian contemporaries, he seldom used the graver, but relied on pure line, like Rembrandt and the etchers of the North.