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	Giordano, Luca (b Naples, 18 Oct 1634; d Naples, 3 Jan 1705). Italian painter and draughtsman, active also in Spain. He was one of the most celebrated artists of the Neapolitan Baroque, whose vast output included altarpieces, mythological paintings and many decorative fresco cycles in both palaces and churches. He moved away from the dark manner of early 17th-century Neapolitan art as practised by Caravaggio and his followers and Jusepe de Ribera, and, drawing on the ideas of many other artists, above all the 16th-century Venetians and Pietro da Cortona, he introduced a new sense of light and glowing colour, of movement and dramatic action. He was internationally successful and travelled widely, working in Naples, Venice, Florence and Madrid.
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	Giordano, Luca Antique, the, §4(iii): 16th-century to early 18th-century sculptors and the Antique Einden, van den Italy, §III, 5(iv): Baroque and Rococo painting, c 1600–c 1750: Florence and Tuscany Madrid, §II, 1: Art life and organization, before 1700 Naples, §II, 3: Art life and organization, c 1600–c 1700 Venice, §II, 4(i): Art life and organization, 1600–1797: Painting attributions Do, Giovanni groups and movements Baroque metalwork Vinaccia, Gian Domenico methods Oil painting, §2(ii): 16th–17th centuries paintings Italy, §III, 5(iii): Baroque and Rococo painting, c 1600–c 1750: Naples allegorical Illusionism, §2(i)(b): Large-scale projects, c 1600–c 1700 altarpieces Italy, §III, 5(vii): Baroque and Rococo painting, c 1600–c 1750: Venice and the Veneto ceiling Madrid, §IV, 1: Buen Retiro Toledo, §IV: Cathedral frescoes Escorial, §3: Decoration Guglielmelli: (1) Arcangelo Guglielmelli Madrid, §IV, 2: Palacio Real Toledo, §II, 2: Art life and organization, after c 1500 literary themes Tasso, Torquato mythological Mythological painting and sculpture, §4: The Baroque period, c 1595–c 1700 oil sketches Oil sketch religious Carreño de Miranda, Juan, §1: Early and middle years, to 1666 Guadalupe Montecassino, §1: Architecture Naples, §IV, 3: Certosa di S Martino Rizi: (2) Francisco Rizi, §2: 1661 and after patrons and collectors Andreini, Pietro Andrea Andreini, Pietro Andrea Balbi, Costantino, the elder (1676-1740) Balbi Bardini, Stefano Bardini, Stefano Borromeo (family) Isola Bella Carol I, King of Romania (reg 1866-1914) Carol I, King of Romania Cecil, John, 5th Earl of Exeter England, §XIII, 1: Collecting and dealing, before 1700 Grand Tour, §II: Early development, c 1630–c 1700 Charles II, King of Spain (reg 1665-1700) Habsburg, §II: (10) Charles II, King of Spain Santos, Francisco de los Spain, §XII, 1: Collecting and dealing: Royal collections Colebrooke, George Colebrooke, George Corsini, Filippo Corsini: (1) Filippo Corsini Curzon, Nathaniel, 1st Baron Scarsdale Curzon, Nathaniel Ensenada, Marqués de Ensenada Fetherstonhaugh, Matthew Fetherstonhaugh, Matthew Filangieri, Gaetano Filangieri, Gaetano Fries, Moritz, Graf von Fries, Moritz Godoy (y Alvárez de Faria), Manuel, Príncipe de la Paz Godoy, Manuel Harrach, Aloys Thomas, Graf von Harrach: (1) Aloys Thomas von Harrach Harrach, Ferdinand Bonaventura, Graf von Harrach Medinaceli, Luís de la Cerda Fernández de Córdoba Folch de Cardona y Aragón, 9th Duque de (1660-1711) Medinaceli: (1) 9th Duque de Medinaceli Medinaceli: (2) 13th Duque de Medinaceli Orléans, Philippe II de Bourbon, 2nd Duc d' (1674-1723) Orléans, House of: (3) Philippe II, §3: 1715–23 Pallavicini, Maria Camilla, Princess of Gallicano Pallavicini: (1) Maria Camilla Pallavicini Peñaranda, Gaspar de Bracamonte y Guzmán, 3rd Conde de Bracamonte y Guzmán, Gaspar de Rosso, Andrea del (1640-1715) Rosso Ruffo, Tommaso, Cardinal, Archbishop of Ferrara Ruffo: (2) Tommaso Ruffo Sackville, John Frederick, 3rd Duke of Dorset Sackville: (2) John Frederick Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset Spinola (family) Spinola Talbot, Charles, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury (1660-1718) Talbot: (2) Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury pupils Conca, Sebastiano, §1: Training and early career: Naples and Rome, to 1730 Matteis, Paolo de, §1: Early years: Rome and Naples, to 1701 reproductions in tapestry Castillo, José del reproductive prints by others Beauvarlet Denon, Vivant Floridablanca Rodríguez, Cayetano restorations by others Giaquinto, Corrado, §1(iv): Spain, 1753–62

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