The Genius of Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione

Allegorical representation of the Genius of the artist Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione himself. A young man lying by a monument, holding a trumpet and a book. Next to the monument a palm branch and a putto playing a trumpet, above which two hands hold a laurel wreath (Fama). On the ground sit two boys, one playing a drum, the other with a basket of birds. In the foreground a bird, a rabbit, a painter's palette and a piece of sheet music.