Vision of Saint Dominic
Luca Giordano (possibly Gaspare Diziani (Italian, 1689-1767))
n.d.
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink with brush and gray wash, with traces of black chalk, squared in black chalk on ivory laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper
- Classification
- Drawing and Watercolor
- Dimensions
- 34.8 × 23.4 cm (13 3/4 × 9 1/4 in.)
- Culture
- Italy
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
A Neapolitan painter known as 'Luca fa presto" ("Luke, paint quickly"), Giordano was also facile and rapid draftsman. He worked in Naples, Florence, Venice, and Rome in the orbit of the great Baroque artists Ribera and Pietro da Cortona.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
