Luca Giordano was an Italian late-Baroque painter and printmaker in etching. Fluent and decorative, he worked successfully in Naples, Rome, Florence, and Venice, before spending a decade in Spain.
Self-portrait, c. 1692
Luca Giordano
Venus and Mars, c. 1670s
Democritus, 1690, Hamburger Kunsthalle
Jusepe de Ribera was a Spanish painter and printmaker. Ribera, Francisco de Zurbarán, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, and the singular Diego Velázquez, are regarded as the major artists of Spanish Baroque painting. Referring to a series of Ribera exhibitions held in the late 20th century, Philippe de Montebello wrote "If Ribera's status as the undisputed protagonist of Neapolitan painting had ever been in doubt, it was no longer. Indeed, to many it seemed that Ribera emerged from these exhibitions as not simply the greatest Neapolitan artist of his age but one of the outstanding European masters of the seventeenth century." Jusepe de Ribera has also been referred to as José de Ribera, Josep de Ribera, and Lo Spagnoletto by his contemporaries, early historians, and biographers.
Copy of Saint Thomas (purported Ribera self-portrait) engraved by Hamlet Winstanley
Jusepe de Ribera
Apollo and Marsyas, 1637, 182 x 232 cm., National Museum of San Martino
Saint Peter and Saint Paul, ca. 1616, oil on canvas, 126 x 112 cm., Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg