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Francesco Solimena

1657

PaintingBaroque

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Francesco Solimena was a prolific Italian Baroque painter, one of an established family of painters and draughtsmen. In his early years, influenced above all by Luca Giordano and Mattia Preti, he developed a highly personal and dramatic handling of light and shade, yet his later art reveals a tendency towards a more restrained classicism. Solimena had many pupils, making him one of the strongest influence in Neapolitan painting of the early 18th century.

Source: Smithsonian Institution · Trust score: 90% · Updated 1mo ago

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Artworks (16)

Diego Pignatelli d'Aragona (1687–1750) and an Enslaved Servant

1731 · Oil on canvas

23 1/4 x 18 1/4 in. (59.1 x 46.4 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Prophetess Deborah Ordering Barak to Take Arms against Sisera

1728 · Brush and black ink, brush and gray wash, over black chalk (recto); small black chalk sketch of a nude male figure (verso)

14-15/16 x 11-15/16 in. (37.9 x 30.3 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Seated Allegorical Female Figure

1700 · Black crayon, with stumping, on tan laid paper, tipped on ivory laid paper, tipped on cream wove paper

30.3 × 22.9 cm (11 15/16 × 9 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Adam and Eve in Paradise

1695 · Oil on canvas

128.2 × 101 cm (50 1/2 × 39 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Portrait of a Girl

1695 · Oil on canvas

56.3 × 43.2 cm (22 3/16 × 17 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Jacopo Butera

1690 · Oil on canvas

117 × 91.6 cm (46 1/16 × 36 1/16 in.); Framed: 116.9 × 91.8 × 2.6 cm (46 × 36 1/8 × 1 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Study for the Fall of Simon Maqus, S. Paolo Maggiare, Naples

1690 · Pen and brown ink, gray, green, and rose washes over graphite

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Birth of the Virgin

1685 · Oil on canvas

80 1/2 x 67 1/4 in. (204.5 x 170.8 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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