Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione
![Possible self-portrait, [[etching]].<ref>This etching is often thought to be either a self-portrait, or a portrait of [[Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini]]</ref>](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/42/Head_of_a_Man_with_a_feathered_Cap_%28Bernini%3F%29_MET_DP816510_%28cropped%29.jpg)
He painted portraits, history paintings and landscapes, but came to specialize in rural scenes with more animals than human figures. Noah's ark and the animals entering the Ark was a favourite subject of his, and he devised a number of other new subjects from the early parts of the Old Testament with the patriarchs and their animals. Provided by Wikipedia