The Marriage of Mary
about 1696 | Luca Giordano
Giordano’s series of paintings of the Virgin Mary illustrate the contrast that was characteristic of his late style between pastel fluidity in the application of paint and the precision of his classicising disegno in the contours of the figures. This classic style appears to derive from Carlo Maratta. Here Giordano is clearly the connecting link between Italian Baroque classicism and the Italian and Spanish painting of the mid and late 18th century (cf. Corrado Giaquinto and Francisco de Goya).
Giordano’s series of paintings of the Virgin Mary illustrate the contrast that was characteristic of his late style between pastel fluidity in the application of paint and the precision of his classicising disegno in the contours of the figures. This classic style appears to derive from Carlo Maratta. Here Giordano is clearly the connecting link between Italian Baroque classicism and the Italian and Spanish painting of the mid and late 18th century (cf. Corrado Giaquinto and Francisco de Goya).
Artist:
Luca Giordano (1634 - 1705 Neapel) DNB
Time:
about 1696
Object Name
Painting
Culture
Italian, Neapolitan
Material/technology:
Canvas
Dimensions:
206 cm × 187 cm
Framed (gallery frame): 223,8 cm × 200 cm × 8,5 cm
Copyright
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemäldegalerie
Invs.
Gemäldegalerie, 1602
Provenance
1733 Imperial Coll. Vienna
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