Bartolomeo Biscaino was an Italian

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

 painter of the Baroque

Baroque

The Baroque is a period and the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music...

 period, active in his native Genoa

Genoa

Genoa |Ligurian]] Zena ; Latin and, archaically, English Genua) is a city and an important seaport in northern Italy, the capital of the Province of Genoa and of the region of Liguria....

. He was the son, and first a pupil of Giovanni Andrea Biscaino

Giovanni Andrea Biscaino

Giovanni Andrea Biscaino was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, described by the Grove Dictionary of Art as a "mediocre landscape painter". He was born in Genoa. He was the father and teacher of the painter, etcher and draughtsman Bartolomeo Biscaino. He died at Genoa of the plague in...

. He afterwards became a pupil of Valerio Castelli. His career was cut short by the plague, which visited Genoa

Genoa

Genoa |Ligurian]] Zena ; Latin and, archaically, English Genua) is a city and an important seaport in northern Italy, the capital of the Province of Genoa and of the region of Liguria....

, to which his father and himself fell victims. The Dresden gallery once held three paintings, representing Woman taken in adultery, Adoration by Magi, and Circumcision of Christ.

He etched several plates, in a style, recalling Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione was an Italian Baroque artist, painter, printmaker and draftsman, of the Genoese school. He is best known now for his elaborate engravings, and as the inventor of the printmaking technique of monotyping. He was known as Il Grechetto in Italy and in France as Le...

, including:

• Moses in bulrushes
• Susannah and the Elders
• Nativity with Angels
• The Circumcision
• The Magi’s offering
• Herodias with head of St. John
• Virgin and infant with Angels
• Virgin suckling infant, with St. Joseph
• Virgin suckling infant with St. Joseph. St. John with his lamb
• Virgin adoring infant
• The Virgin with innfant Jesus on her knee, St. John kissing his foot and St. Joseph behind
• Virgin with infant Jesus standing on her knee, stretching out His arm to St. Joseph; half-length The Holy Family, with St. John holding a cross
• Repose in Egypt with Angels
• Infant Jesus reposing on the globe
• St. Joseph with the Infant
• St. Christopher giving hand to Infant Jesus
• St. Christopher with Infant Jesus
• Mary Magdalene in desert (1656).