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Francesco Solimena
1657-1747 Italian Francesco Solimena Gallery Francesco Solimena was born in Canale di Serino, near Avellino. He received early training from his father, Angelo Solimena, with whom he executed a Paradise for the cathedral of Nocera (place where he spend a big part of his life) and a Vision of St. Cyril of Alexandria for the church of San Domenico at Solofra. He settled in Naples in 1674, there he worked in the studio of Francesco di Maria and later Giacomo del Po[1]. He apparently had taken the clerical orders, but was patronized early on, and encouraged to become an artist by Cardinal Vincenzo Orsini (later Pope Benedict XIII)[2]. By the 1680s, he had independent fresco commissions, and his active studio came to dominate Neapolitan painting from the 1690s through the first four decades of the 18th century. He modeled his art??for he was a highly conventional painter??after the Roman Baroque masters, Luca Giordano and Giovanni Lanfranco, and Mattia Preti, whose technique of warm brownish shadowing Solimena emulated. Solimena painted many frescoes in Naples, altarpieces, celebrations of weddings and courtly occasions, mythological subjects, characteristically chosen for their theatrical drama, and portraits. His settings are suggested with a few details??steps, archways, balustrades, columns??concentrating attention on figures and their draperies, caught in pools and shafts of light. Art historians take pleasure in identifying the models he imitated or adapted in his compositions. His numerous preparatory drawings often mix media, combining pen-and-ink, chalk and watercolor washes. Francesco Solimena 'A study for the fresco cycle in the Sacristy of San Paolo Maggiore in Naples', Whitfield Fine Art.A typical example of the elaborately constructed allegorical "machines" of his early mature style, fully employing his mastery of chiaroscuro, is the Allegory of Rule (1690) from the Stroganoff collection, which has come to the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg. He apparently hoped to see his son Orazio follow a career in the law, for which he received a doctorate (de Domenici), but also became a painter. His large, efficiently structured atelier became a virtual academy, at the heart of cultural life in Naples. Among his many pupils were Francesco de Mura (1696-1784) , Giuseppe Bonito (1707-89), Pietro Capelli, Gaspare Traversi, and most notably Corrado Giaquinto and Sebastiano Conca. The Scottish portraitist Allan Ramsay spent three years in Solimena's studio. Solimena amassed a fortune, was made a baron and lived in sumptuous style founded on his success. Francesco Solimena died at Barra, near Naples, in 1747.

 

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Francesco Solimena Judith with the Head of Holofernes oil painting

Painting ID::  3800

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Francesco Solimena
Judith with the Head of Holofernes
Art History Museum, Vienna
   
   
     

 

 

Francesco Solimena Heliodorus Chased from the Temple (mk05) oil painting

Painting ID::  20643

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Francesco Solimena
Heliodorus Chased from the Temple (mk05)
1725 Canvas ,59 x 78 1/2''(150 x 200 cm)Preparatory sketch for a fresco in the New Church of the Gesu at Naples Acquired for Louis XVI in 1786
   
   
     

 

 

Francesco Solimena Self-Portrait oil painting

Painting ID::  26866

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Francesco Solimena
Self-Portrait
mk52 1730-1 Oil on canvas 130x114cm Uffizi,Florence
   
   
     

 

 

Francesco Solimena Rebecca at the Well oil painting

Painting ID::  29103

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Francesco Solimena
Rebecca at the Well
mk65 Oil on canvas 28x25"
   
   
     

 

 

Francesco Solimena Saint Cajetan Appeasing Divine Anger oil painting

Painting ID::  32665

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Francesco Solimena
Saint Cajetan Appeasing Divine Anger
Fresco
   
   
     

 

 

Francesco Solimena Dido Receiveng Aeneas and Cupid Disguised as Ascanius oil painting

Painting ID::  32668

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Francesco Solimena
Dido Receiveng Aeneas and Cupid Disguised as Ascanius
1720s Oil on canvas, 207 x 310 cm
   
   
     

 

 

Francesco Solimena Expxulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple oil painting

Painting ID::  32672

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Francesco Solimena
Expxulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple
Fresco
   
   
     

 

 

Francesco Solimena The Massacre of the Giustiniani at Chios oil painting

Painting ID::  32680

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Francesco Solimena
The Massacre of the Giustiniani at Chios
Oil on canvas, 275 x 163 cm
   
   
     

 

 

Francesco Solimena Rebecca and Eleazer oil painting

Painting ID::  32687

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Francesco Solimena
Rebecca and Eleazer
c. 1710 Oil on canvas, 202 x 150 cm
   
   
     

 

 

Francesco Solimena Charles VI and Count Gundaker Althann oil painting

Painting ID::  39580

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Francesco Solimena
Charles VI and Count Gundaker Althann
mk150 1728 309x284cm
   
   
     

 

 

Francesco Solimena Descent from the Cross oil painting

Painting ID::  39633

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Francesco Solimena
Descent from the Cross
mk150 c.1730/31 Canvas 398x223cm
   
   
     

 

 

Francesco Solimena Dido Receiving Aeneas and Cupid Disguised as Ascanius oil painting

Painting ID::  43281

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Francesco Solimena
Dido Receiving Aeneas and Cupid Disguised as Ascanius
mk170 1720-1730 Oil on canvas 207.2x310.2cm
   
   
     

 

 

Francesco Solimena The Trinity, the Madonna and St Dominic oil painting

Painting ID::  43606

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Francesco Solimena
The Trinity, the Madonna and St Dominic
The Trinity, the Madonna and St Dominic
   
   
     

 

 

Francesco Solimena Allegory of Reign oil painting

Painting ID::  51272

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Francesco Solimena
Allegory of Reign
1690 Oil on canvas, 104 x 76 cm
   
   
     

 

 

Francesco Solimena St Bonaventura Receiving the Banner of St Sepulchre from the Madonna oil painting

Painting ID::  51275

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Francesco Solimena
St Bonaventura Receiving the Banner of St Sepulchre from the Madonna
1710 Oil on canvas, 240 x 130 cm
   
   
     

 

 

Francesco Solimena The Martyrdom of Sts Placidus and Flavia oil painting

Painting ID::  51280

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Francesco Solimena
The Martyrdom of Sts Placidus and Flavia
1697-1708 Oil on canvas, 75 x 133 cm
   
   
     

 

 

Francesco Solimena Self portrait oil painting

Painting ID::  58469

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Francesco Solimena
Self portrait
mk261 1730-1732 Oil Painting on canvas in 130 x 114 cm
   
   
     

 

 

Francesco Solimena The Martyrdom of Sts Placidus and Flavia oil painting

Painting ID::  70501

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Francesco Solimena
The Martyrdom of Sts Placidus and Flavia
Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 75 x 133 cm
   
   
     

 

 

Francesco Solimena judit med holofernes huvud oil painting

Painting ID::  70764

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Francesco Solimena
judit med holofernes huvud
1728-33 pa duk 130x105cm se
   
   
     

 

 

Francesco Solimena Rebecca at the Well oil painting

Painting ID::  71553

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Francesco Solimena
Rebecca at the Well
Date c. 1700 Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 72 x 63 cm (28.35 x 24.8 in)
   
   
     

 

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Francesco Solimena
1657-1747 Italian Francesco Solimena Gallery Francesco Solimena was born in Canale di Serino, near Avellino. He received early training from his father, Angelo Solimena, with whom he executed a Paradise for the cathedral of Nocera (place where he spend a big part of his life) and a Vision of St. Cyril of Alexandria for the church of San Domenico at Solofra. He settled in Naples in 1674, there he worked in the studio of Francesco di Maria and later Giacomo del Po[1]. He apparently had taken the clerical orders, but was patronized early on, and encouraged to become an artist by Cardinal Vincenzo Orsini (later Pope Benedict XIII)[2]. By the 1680s, he had independent fresco commissions, and his active studio came to dominate Neapolitan painting from the 1690s through the first four decades of the 18th century. He modeled his art??for he was a highly conventional painter??after the Roman Baroque masters, Luca Giordano and Giovanni Lanfranco, and Mattia Preti, whose technique of warm brownish shadowing Solimena emulated. Solimena painted many frescoes in Naples, altarpieces, celebrations of weddings and courtly occasions, mythological subjects, characteristically chosen for their theatrical drama, and portraits. His settings are suggested with a few details??steps, archways, balustrades, columns??concentrating attention on figures and their draperies, caught in pools and shafts of light. Art historians take pleasure in identifying the models he imitated or adapted in his compositions. His numerous preparatory drawings often mix media, combining pen-and-ink, chalk and watercolor washes. Francesco Solimena 'A study for the fresco cycle in the Sacristy of San Paolo Maggiore in Naples', Whitfield Fine Art.A typical example of the elaborately constructed allegorical "machines" of his early mature style, fully employing his mastery of chiaroscuro, is the Allegory of Rule (1690) from the Stroganoff collection, which has come to the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg. He apparently hoped to see his son Orazio follow a career in the law, for which he received a doctorate (de Domenici), but also became a painter. His large, efficiently structured atelier became a virtual academy, at the heart of cultural life in Naples. Among his many pupils were Francesco de Mura (1696-1784) , Giuseppe Bonito (1707-89), Pietro Capelli, Gaspare Traversi, and most notably Corrado Giaquinto and Sebastiano Conca. The Scottish portraitist Allan Ramsay spent three years in Solimena's studio. Solimena amassed a fortune, was made a baron and lived in sumptuous style founded on his success. Francesco Solimena died at Barra, near Naples, in 1747.