New: Artnap New Tab for Chrome. A museum painting in every new tab. Add to Chrome

Luca Giordano

78 works

Featured

Red chalk drawing of a seated bearded man gesturing outward, with sketched heads and an arm beside him on toned paper.

Saint John the Baptist Preaching (recto); Male Nude with Raised Arms and Sketches of Heads (verso)

n.d.

Brown ink and wash drawing of a bearded seated figure in robes surrounded by cherubs, with putti study sketches below.

The Almighty with Angels

ca. 1650-69

Brown ink and wash drawing of putti and angels arranged in a circle among clouds around an open central light area.

A Glory of Angels

ca. 1650-69

Grey wash drawing of dunes with a gallows, a rider, and a distant town with windmills and a church tower.

View of the city of Naarden

1640

Pen and wash drawing of a walled town with a church tower and boats, with travelers, cattle and sheep in the foreground.

View of the city of Grave

1655

Red chalk drawing of a standing male figure in draped cloth, with one arm extended, on a torn sheet of paper.

Study of Standing Figure

1710

Sketch of a seated woman looking up at a winged angel gesturing toward a child on the ground, with a tree behind.

Hagar and the angel

Pencil sketch of a bishop saint with crozier ascending on clouds, surrounded by putti and radiating light lines.

Ascension of a Bishop Saint

1634-1705

Red chalk drawing of two seated bearded figures with cherubs and clouds, one figure raising an arm toward a radiant light abo

The Holy Trinity (recto); Studies of Seated Female Figures (the Virgin and another Saint?) (verso)

1634-1705

Pen and wash drawing of the Virgin and Child with angels in the clouds above soldiers on a hillside with a distant walled cit

The Virgin Intervening during a Siege of Madrid

ca. 1699

Brown ink and wash drawing of a chariot drawn by lions among clouds, with winged figures and armored men.

The Triumph of Cybele

ca. 1697

Pen and ink drawing of a bearded man with a staff among kneeling and gathering figures, including women and children.

Moses Striking the Rock

1634-1705

Pen and ink drawing of men carrying a woman by a rocky shore, with sea creatures, cherubs and winged figures in the sky.

The Abduction of Helen

1634-1705

Pen and ink sketch of a reclining semi-nude man surrounded by soldiers and onlookers in a landscape.

Fragment of a Composition with a Reclining Semi-Nude Man Surrounded by Soldiers and Other Onlookers in a Landscape

1634-1705

Brown wash drawing of a seated ruler receiving a kneeling man before courtiers, with a nude figure and sword at right.

The Painter Rewarded

1634-1705

Red chalk drawing of a kneeling saint received by Christ and the Virgin amid clouds and putti.

Saint Anne Received in Heaven by Christ and the Virgin

1634-1705

Red chalk drawing of a seated man with upturned face, raised hand and draped robes on a tan sheet.

Evangelist Looking Upward

n.d.

Brown ink and wash drawing of men raising a crucified figure on a cross, with a ladder, a horseman, and a crowd.

The Raising of the Cross

Brown wash drawing of a kneeling friar holding the Christ child, with putti and clouds above in radiating light.

Saint Anthony of Padua

Pen and brown wash drawing of the Last Supper with haloed Christ at a long table surrounded by apostles, a dog and bread.

Last Supper

c. 1685

Red chalk study of allegorical figures, a putto, a tiara and scrolling ornament on tan paper, by Luca Giordano.

Allegorical Figures Holding the Papal Insignia, study after the Allegory of Divine Providence in Palazzo Barberini in…

c. 1650

Red chalk drawing of a standing bearded man in a draped cloak, pointing with one hand, on tan paper.

Standing Bearded Man

n.d.

Pen and brown ink drawing of a woman in a headscarf raising a hammer beside a reclining figure and a tent.

Jael and Sisera

1700

Pen and brown wash drawing of two draped figures beside a lattice fence, with a wooded landscape and distant town behind.

Design for Susanna and the Elders

1660

Red chalk drawing of the Finding of the Cross: kneeling women, an old man with a staff near wooden beams, and onlookers.

Finding of the Cross

1650

Ink and wash drawing of the Virgin rising with angels above kneeling apostles gathered around an open tomb.

Assumption of the Virgin

1700

Chalk drawing on blue paper of a young man leaning back and pulling a rope, with a hand study at lower right.

Young Man Pulling a Rope

1710

Red chalk drawing of putti and female figures supporting a laurel-framed medallion with a coat of arms.

Project for a wall decoration (Female figures and putti support medallion with coat of arms)

1700

Pen and brown wash drawing of the Birth of the Virgin with attendants, a basin, a vase, and sketched cherubs above.

Birth of the Virgin

1650

Red chalk drawing of two bearded men in draped robes, one raising his arm and pointing upward.

Two Apostles

1740