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Luca Giordano

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Luca Giordano

Italian · 1634–1705

Baroque

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.

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life: 1634–1705life
movement: Baroquemovement

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The most striking aspect of Giordano's technique was his legendary speed of execution; in his many brilliantly coloured frescoes his touch is rapid and fluent. His speed and capacity to improvise reached a climax in his Spanish period; the Prior of the Escorial wrote to Charles II: To facilitate his gift for improvisation, Giordano is said to have brought half-nude models with him on to the scaffold. Giordano prepared his works in drawings and oil sketches and was a prolific draughtsman. His early compositional studies, such as the three drawings of St. Sebastian Succoured by the Holy Women (Florence, Uffizi; Vienna, Albertina), are influenced by Ribera's drawings, yet Ribera's compact forms are replaced by Giordano's more tremulous line.