Vision of Saint Dominic
Luca Giordano
1652–1705
- 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
- Dimensions
- 34.8 × 23.4 cm (13 3/4 × 9 1/4 in.)
- Genre
- pen and ink drawings
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
squaring (transferring technique)drawings (visual works)black chalkchalkchalk sticksinkpen and ink drawingswashprints and drawinginorganic materialcoating (material)paper (fiber product)
About
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.
