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Luca Giordano
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Italian Baroque painter (1634–1705)
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Luca Giordano was a male painter and printmaker from the Kingdom of Naples, active during the Baroque movement. Born and later dying in Naples, he worked in Rome, Florence, and Venice. He studied under Jusepe de Ribera and held the position of court painter. His professional output included works in the genres of portrait and visual arts, with his native language being Italian.
Among his notable creations is the 1688 painting *Adoration of the Shepherds*. His works are held in the collections of the Städel Museum, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Museo del Prado, and Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. Giordano was buried at Santa Brigida in Naples. He is described in sources such as the *Nordisk familjebok*, *Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary*, *The Nuttall Encyclopædia*, and the *Encyclopædia Britannica* 11th edition.
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1634-10-18 ) 18 October 1634, Naples , Kingdom of Naples
- Died
- 3 January 1705 (1705-01-03) (aged 70), Naples, Kingdom of Naples
- Other name
- Luca fa presto
- Education
- Jusepe de Ribera
- Known for
- Painting
- Notable work
- The Entombment (1650–1653) Lucretia and Tarquin (1663) Saint Michael ( c. 1663 ) The Fall of the Rebel Angels ( c. 1666 ) Marriage of the Virgin ( c. 1688 )
- Movement
- Baroque
- Spouse
- Margherita Dardi ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1658 )
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Naples
- Place of birth
- Naples
- Place of death
- Naples
- Occupation
- printmaker
- Position held
- court painter
- Languages spoken
- Italian
- Student of
- Jusepe de Ribera
- Field of work
- visual arts
- Genre
- portrait
- Movement
- Baroque
- Image
- LucaGiordano1692c-Self-portrait-Naples.jpg
- Work location
- Naples
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- Commons category
- Luca Giordano
- date of birth
- 1632-00-00
- date of death
- 1705-01-12
- Commons Creator page
- Luca Giordano
- has works in the collection
- Musée des beaux-arts de Marseille
- place of burial
- Santa Brigida, Naples
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Works in European collections
36 objects attributed to Luca Giordano, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Luca Giordano (18 October 1634 – 3 January 1705) 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.
Early life and training
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Luca Giordano” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.