The Holy Family Venerated By St. Anthony of Padua
Technical Details
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Title
The Holy Family Venerated By St. Anthony of Padua -
Author
Luca Giordano -
Year
1664 - 5 -
Dimensions
cm 365 x 224 -
Inventory
446 -
Room
XXXI
This picture is likely to have been painted by Luca Giordano during his known absence from Naples in 1664–5, when he spent time in Florence and may even have travelled as far as Venice. He has already contaminated his master Ribera’s style with a Baroque search for the painterly and the picturesque which he learnt from Mattia Preti, Rubens and Pietro da Cortona. The subject is also the appearance of the Cross to the Holy Family, which proved enormously popular in Naples.
