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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.

Francesco Solimena Portrait of Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor oil painting artist


Francesco Solimena Portrait of Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor oil painting artist

Portrait of Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor
Painting ID::  76362
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1707(1707) Oil on canvas 188 ?? 127 cm (74 ?? 50 in) cjr


Francesco Solimena Portrait of Charles VI oil painting artist


Francesco Solimena Portrait of Charles VI oil painting artist

Portrait of Charles VI
Painting ID::  78216
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1707(1707) Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 188 x 127 cm (74 x 50 in) cyf


Francesco Solimena Self portrait oil painting artist


Francesco Solimena Self portrait oil painting artist

Self portrait
Painting ID::  78811
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ca. 1715(1715) Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 128 x 112 cm (50.4 x 44.1 in) cyf


Francesco Solimena LAssomption et le Couronnement de la Vierge oil painting artist


Francesco Solimena LAssomption et le Couronnement de la Vierge oil painting artist

LAssomption et le Couronnement de la Vierge
Painting ID::  86272
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1690(1690) Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 134 x 101 cm (52.8 x 39.8 in) cyf


Francesco Solimena Bathseba im Bade oil painting artist


Francesco Solimena Bathseba im Bade oil painting artist

Bathseba im Bade
Painting ID::  91392
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um 1725 Medium oil on canvas Dimensions 103 x 128 cm (40.6 x 50.4 in) cjr


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