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| Luca Giordano Diana and Endymion ca. 1675-80 oil on canvas Museo di Castelvecchio, Verona |
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| Luca Giordano Armida and Rinaldo (scene from Gerusalemme Liberata) ca. 1675 oil on canvas Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| Luca Giordano Armida and Rinaldo (scene from Gerusalemme Liberata) ca. 1672-74 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon |
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| Luca Giordano The Goddess Flora ca. 1697 oil on canvas Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| Luca Giordano Perseus confronting Phineas with the Head of Medusa ca. 1680-84 oil on canvas National Gallery, London |
"Until Pablo Picasso, Luca Giordano was the most prolific artist who ever lived. In his birthplace of Naples he is said to have trained with Jusepe de Ribera, whose dark, dramatic manner deeply influenced him, but he also studied earlier art. Giordano began to develop his light, airy, delicately colored style in the late 1650s, synthesizing Pietro da Cortona's Baroque decorations in Rome with the vibrant hues of Venetian art and Peter Paul Rubens. From 1692 to 1702, he was Spain's court painter, where King Charles II said that only the facile Giordano could tackle the huge ceilings of his Escorial palace. With his joyous spirit, Giordano anticipated the Rococo style."
– from curator's notes at the Getty Museum, Los Angeles
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| Luca Giordano Venus presenting Arms to Aeneas ca. 1680-82 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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| Luca Giordano Tarquin and Lucretia 1663 oil on canvas Museo di Capodimonte, Naples |
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| Luca Giordano Triumph of Galatea, with Acis transformed into a Fountain ca. 1674-77 oil on canvas Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence |
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| Luca Giordano Fall of the Rebel Angels ca. 1660-65 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Luca Giordano St Michael Archangel vanquishing Satan ca. 1663 oil on canvas Gemäldegalerie, Berlin |
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| Luca Giordano Esau and Jacob 1695-96 oil on canvas Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| Luca Giordano Sacrifice of Isaac 1695-96 oil on canvas Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| Luca Giordano The Crossing of the Red Sea 1681 oil on canvas Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore, Bergamo |
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| follower of Luca Giordano Martyrdom of St Lawrence ca. 1710 oil on canvas Pinacoteca della Città Metropolitana di Bari |
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| follower of Luca Giordano The Lamentation ca. 1710 oil on canvas Pinacoteca della Città Metropolitana di Bari |