Luca Giordano (1634-1705) was an Italian Baroque painter and etcher from Naples, regarded as one of the most celebrated artists of the Neapolitan Baroque. Prolific and fast, he earned the nickname Luca fa presto, meaning Luca who works quickly, for the speed and versatility of his output of altarpieces, mythological paintings and decorative frescoes. He moved Neapolitan painting away from the darker style of earlier seventeenth-century masters toward brighter color and more dramatic movement, and his career took him to Rome, Florence and Venice as well as a decade as court painter in Spain.
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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.
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was an Italian late-Baroque painter and printmaker in etching
Practices: Printmaking, Lead
was an Italian late-Baroque painter and printmaker in etching
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