Luca GiordanoItalian, 1646–1705L'Enlèvement d'Hélène
Can I see it?
Unknown
Where is “L'Enlèvement d'Hélène” now? Collection: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen, Caen. Unknown.
Caen, France
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
Details
- Accession number
- 63.6.1
What it shows
In the catalog
Sources
- Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen
- Image: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen — cliché Martine Seyve; Ministère de la Culture (France), base Joconde
In the life of Luca Giordano
The whole life1651–1678 · Workplace
Naples
c. 1678
Andreini brings his paintings to Florence
The Florentine collector Pietro Andrea Andreini, after visiting Naples, brings back to Florence a small group of Giordano's works, among them “Apollo and Marsyas” (now in the Museo Bardini), which spreads the artist's fame in the city.
1679–1682 · Workplace
Florence
1681
A biographical account of Giordano is compiled
The “Relatione della vita di Luca Giordano pittore celebre” (“Account of the life of the famous painter Luca Giordano”; Florence, National Central Library) appears; some scholars think Giordano wrote it himself. It shows that in Rome his paintings were little appreciated, perhaps because they differed so fundamentally from Roman Baroque.
early 1682
Arrives in Florence
Arrives in Florence, having visited Rome on the way, where he probably saw Gaulli's fresco in the Church of the Gesù. He lodges with the del Rosso family, who commission many works from him.
1685 · Workplace
Bergamo
