Artist
Luca Giordano
Italian, 1634–1705
Luca Giordano was an Italian Early Baroque Italian painter. 161 works are cataloged here, principally at Museo del Prado, most of them oil paintings. Luca Giordano was born in Naples.
Luca Giordano was an Italian late-Baroque painter and printmaker in etching. Giordano was one of the most celebrated artists of the Neapolitan Baroque, whose vast output included altarpieces, mythological paintings and many decorative fresco cycles in both palaces and churches. He moved away from the dark manner of early 17th-century Neapolitan art as practised by Caravaggio and his followers and Jusepe de Ribera, and, drawing on the ideas of many other artists, above all the 16th-century Venetians and Pietro da Cortona, he introduced a new sense of light and glowing colour, of movement and dramatic action.
He was internationally successful and travelled widely, working in Naples, Rome, Florence, and Venice, before spending a decade in Spain.
Works by Luca Giordano
The Flight into Egypt
Diana and Endymion
The Annunciation
The Virgin and Child Appearing to Saint Francis of Assisi
Rubens painting ‘The Allegory of Peace’
Saint Joseph’s Dream
The Defeat of Sisera
Viaje de Jacob a Caná
Penitent Mary Magdalene
Charles II, King of Spain, on Horseback
La Sagrada Familia con santa Isabel y san Juanito
Armida and Rinaldo
The Kiss of Judas
The Holy Family with Saint John
Sagrada Familia con San Juanito
Victoria de los israelitas y cántico de Débora
Prisión del condestable de Montmorency, en la Batalla de San Quintín
Philosopher
Hércules en la pira
El cántico de la profetisa María
Eneas, fugitivo con su familia
Pilate washing his Hands
Jacob y Raquel en el pozo
Saint Rosalia
Death of Saint Joseph
Expulsion of Hagar by Abraham
Bacchus and Ariadne
Judith with the Head of Holophernes
Venus Giving Arms to Aeneas
Charles II by horse
Saint Bridget saved from a shipwreck by the Virgin Mary
Batalla de San Quintín
The Miracle of Saint Anthony
Collections represented
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