Spanish, active 1545-99   Related Paintings of Prado, Blas del :. | California landscape | The Birth of Mary | The Crucifixion | A Street in Old Scarborough | Pacific Grove Shortlime |
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Mauritz F H Haas
Dutch (Resident in US) 1832-1895
Arthur Melville,ARSA,RSW,RWS
1855-1904
GIORDANO, Luca
Italian Baroque Era Painter, ca.1634-1705 ,Italian painter and draughtsman, active also in Spain. He 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.