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| Francesco Solimena Boreas abducting Oreithyia 1729 oil on canvas National Art Museum of Azerbaijan |
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| Francesco Solimena Bozzetto for Venus with Iapis tending the wounded Achilles ca. 1695 oil on canvas Compton Verney, Warwickshire |
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| Francesco Solimena Bozzetto for Priam in the Tent of Achilles ca. 1695 oil on canvas Compton Verney, Warwickshire |
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| Francesco Solimena Bozzetto for Royal Hunt of Dido and Aeneas ca. 1712 oil on canvas Palazzo Buonaccorsi, Macerata |
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| Francesco Solimena Royal Hunt of Dido and Aeneas ca. 1712 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
"It is a commonplace of criticism that Rococo neurotically banished darker tones and shadow, shadow which is the main vehicle of subjectivity in painters like Solimena, where the most conventional subjects become indeterminate through the heavy fringe of warm shadows which surrounds them. This darkness draws one in and creates an effect like figure-ground reversal. Investigating the shadows we sink into a reverie from which we may not get free."
– Robert Harbison, Reflections on Baroque (London: Reaktion Books, 2000)
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| Francesco Solimena Diana and Endymion ca. 1705-1710 oil on canvas Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
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| Francesco Solimena Aeneas at the Court of Dido ca. 1739-41 oil on canvas Museo di Capodimonte, Naples |
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| attributed to Francesco Solimena Zeuxis painting the portrait of Venus modeled on the beautiful Maidens of Croton before 1747 oil on canvas Palazzo Lanfranchi, Matera |
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| Francesco Solimena Allegory of Rule 1690 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| attributed to Francesco Solimena Rest on the Flight into Egypt before 1747 oil on copper Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| attributed to Francesco Solimena Raising of Lazarus ca. 1690-1710 oil on canvas Pinacoteca al Canopoleno, Sassari |
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| Francesco Solimena Ecce Homo ca. 1680-1700 oil on canvas National Museum, Warsaw |
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| Francesco Solimena Descent from the Cross before 1747 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Francesco Solimena Noli me tangere before 1747 oil on canvas Salford Museum and Art Gallery, Manchester |