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Francesco di Maria. Known for. Painting. Movement. Baroque. Patron (s) Pope Benedict XIII. Francesco Solimena (4 October 1657 – 3 April 1747) was a prolific Italian painter of the Baroque era, one of an established family of painters and draughtsmen.
Jan 18, 2024 · Francesco Solimena settled in Naples in 1674 and became the unchallenged head of the Neapolitan school of painting during the first half of the 1700s. He modeled his painting on the exuberant Baroque style of his predecessor, Luca Giordano, modified by the classical tendencies of Roman decorator Pietro da Cortona.
Francesco Solimena was a prolific Italian painter of the Baroque era, who worked in Naples and modeled his art after Roman masters. He painted frescoes, altarpieces, mythological scenes, portraits and had a large studio of pupils.
- Italian
- October 4, 1657
- Avellino, Italy
- April 3, 1747
Francesco Solimena. Portrait of a Girl, c. 1700. Francesco Solimena. Jacopo Butera, c. 1695. Francesco Solimena. Christ Healing the Lame Man, n.d. Francesco Solimena. Spandrel Decoration with Seated Allegorical Figures of Hope and Concord, n.d. Francesco Solimena.
Francesco Solimena: 7 works. 'Over a long and extremely productive career, Francesco Solimena painted frescoes in many of the greatest churches in Naples, and he became one of the...
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Francesco Solimena. 1657 - 1747. Solimena was probably born in Nocera dei Pagani; he worked mainly in Naples. After the death of Giordano he became the leading painter there, and acquired an international reputation. He combined a Baroque style with classical elements taken from artists like Raphael.
The Birth of the Virgin. Francesco Solimena Italian. ca. 1690. Not on view. Painted in the 1690s, the picture must have served as an altarpiece in a church in Naples. In the foreground the infant Virgin Mary is shown to nurses and her adoring father, while in the distance, enveloped in a heavenly radiance, is the child’s mother, Anna, lying ...