Artist
Francesco Solimena
Italian, 1657–1747
Francesco Solimena was an Italian High Baroque Italian painter. 47 works are cataloged here, principally at Bavarian State Painting Collections, most of them oil paintings. Francesco Solimena was born in Serino.
Francesco Solimena (4 October 1657 – 3 April 1747) was a prolific Italian Baroque painter, one of an established family of painters and draughtsmen. In his early years, influenced above all by Luca Giordano and Mattia Preti, he developed a highly personal and dramatic handling of light and shade, yet his later art reveals a tendency towards a more restrained classicism. Solimena had many pupils, making him one of the strongest influence in Neapolitan painting of the early 18th century.
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