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. He was internationally successful and travelled widely,
working in Naples, Venice, Florence and Madrid.
The Forge of Vulcan
Oil on canvas
The Hermitage, St. Petersburg
Venus, Cupid and Mars Museum of Capodimonte, Naples
The Good Samaritan 1685
oil on canvas
Musee des Beaux-Arts, Rouen
The Rape of the Sabines 1680
Mars and Venus, Captured by Vulcan 1670
La Mort de Seneque 1685
Christ Cleansing the Temple
Oil on canvas
Bob Jones University Collection, Greenville
The Philosopher Cratetes
c. 1650
Oil on canvas, 113 x 90 cm
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome
A Cynical Philospher
Oil on canvas, 131 x 103 cm
Alte Pinakothek, Munich
Crucifixion of St. Peter
c. 1660
Oil on canvas, 196 x 258 cm
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice
Dream of Solomon
c. 1693
Oil on canvas, 245 x 361 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid
Diana and Endymion 1680
Allegory
The Abduction of Helen
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