动物大会 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	动物大会
品名（英）	A Congress of Animals
入馆年号	1908年，08.227.25
策展部门	绘画和印刷品（Drawings and Prints）
创作者	Giovanni Francesco Castiglione【1641 至 1710】【意大利人】
创作年份	公元 1641 - 公元 1710
创作地区
分类	图画（Drawings）
尺寸	8 1/8 x 12 1/8英寸 (20.7 x 30.8厘米)
介绍（中）	乔瓦尼·贝内代托（Giovanni Benedetto，1609-1664）的儿子兼助手、难以捉摸的弗朗西斯科·卡斯蒂廖内（Francesco Castiglione。作为一名画家，弗朗西斯科模仿了他的父亲，但使用了更轻、更饱和的调色板。作为一名绘图员，与父亲大胆使用画笔和在纸上密集涂抹油画相比，儿子更喜欢用锯齿形笔画进行明暗处理的精细钢笔轮廓和水彩的细腻半透明。博物馆收藏的弗朗西斯科的两幅绘画作品反映了荷兰和佛兰德动物绘画、绘画和版画在利古里亚的持久影响。根据伊索寓言，狮子在博物馆的"年轻猎人"（inv08.227.24）和"动物大会"（inv.08.227.25）中的动物和鸟类分组中的地位可能暗示了它作为百兽之王的角色。
介绍（英）	The graphic oeuvre of the elusive Francesco Castiglione, son and assistant of Giovanni Benedetto (1609-1664), can be based largely on the name annotated at the bottom of the sheet by a late-eighteenth-century collector known as the "Reliable Venetian Hand" for the accuracy of his attributions (see Percy 1971, nos. 120, 121; Bean 1979, nos. 113, 114). As a painter, Francesco imitated his father but used a lighter, more saturated palette of colors. As a draftsman, the son preferred a fine pen outline with zigzag strokes for shading and the delicate translucency of watercolor to the father's bold use of the brush and dense application of oil paint on paper. The subject matter of Francesco's two drawings in the Museum’s collection reflects the lasting influence of Dutch and Flemish animal paintings, drawings, and prints in Liguria. The position of the lion in the grouping of animals and birds in the Museum’s "Young Hunter" (inv. 08.227.24) and in the "Congress of Animals" (inv. 08.227.25) may allude to its role as the king of the beasts, based on Aesop's fables.