# The Immaculate Conception with Sts Francis of Assisi and Anthony of Padua [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [CASTIGLIONE, Giovanni Benedetto]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 367 x 221 cm ## Commentary At the end of his career Castiglione produced ecstatic compositions of great intensity, reminiscent of Bernini's style of these years. One of the few documented paintings in Castiglione's career, the present Immaculate Conception was executed for the high altar of the new Capuchin church in Osimo, a small town in central Italy. The artistic genius and professional success of the Genoese painter was often overshadowed by the artist's difficult and violent personality. He reportedly threw his sister off a rooftop, sent his brother to jail, and nearly murdered his nephew in a fistfight. Yet he produced religious pictures of stunning grandeur and inspiration. ## Related artworks - [Christ Chasing the Moneylenders from the Temple]() - [Circe]() - [Circe]() - [In Front of Noah's Ark \(detail\)]() - [In Front of Noah's Ark]() - [Jacob Leading the Flocks of Laban]() - [Meeting of Isaac and Rebecca]() - [Pyrrha and Deucalion]() - [St Francis in Ecstasy]() - [The Adoration of the Shepherds]() - [The Fable of Diogenes]() - [The Genius of Castiglione]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()