The Baroque Art of Luca Giordano

The Masters of the Baroque

Created byFederico von Borstel

Last updated 1/2025

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What you'll learn

The Baroque Art of Luca Giordano
Increased appreciation of Art
The course enhances human development.
The course seeks to enrich your life experience.

Course content

1 section • 15 lectures • 1h 57m total length

Introduction3:06
Explore the baroque art of Luca Giordano, tracing his Naples roots, early and late works, and key mentors, through drawing as the primary method of understanding.
Giordano 23:37
Giordano, a Neapolitan late Baroque painter born in 1634, matured through Rome, Florence, and Venice after Naples training, leveraging his copyist father to imitate other artists.
Giordano 33:45
Explore Luca Giordano’s Baroque frescoes in the Arena Chapel, Padua, and learn how his observational rendering of biblical scenes, figures, and animals reveals art's link to science.
Giordano 416:41
Explore baroque figurative art through Giordano's works and his teacher Rivera, focusing on figure study, observation, underpainting, glazing, and the interplay of light and model.
Giordano 55:48
Explore Luca Giordano, a Venetian school painter, known for large allegorical and biblical scenes in vivid color within neoclassical architecture, with diagonal compositions and shallow depth.
Giordano 65:02
Trace Cortona’s baroque masterwork and teaching, examining dramatic illumination, one-point perspective, and foreshortening in St. Francis scenes, and how his ceiling frescoes influenced Luca Giordano.
Giordano 73:11
Explore the Baroque's many forms from Bernini and Rubens to Caravaggio and Holland realism, tracing 17th-century painting, counter-reformation contexts, and Dutch landscapes and still lives.
Giordano 86:53
Explore Luca Giordano’s early works at age 16, shaped by Ribeira and his painter father, highlighting model-based rendering, copying, and study of philosophers and hands.
Giordano 97:17
The baroque artist Luca Giordano trains his hand through studies of philosophers and biblical scenes, drawing on his teacher’s composition while refining anatomy, lighting, and foreshortening across works from 1653–1655.
Giordano 108:39
Trace Giordano’s transition years as he evolves from early study with an old master toward a brighter baroque style, embracing foreshortening and atmospheric perspective across pivotal works.
Giordano 119:42
Giordano earned a rapid-painting nickname by copying masters, and this overview surveys key works like Mars and Venus with Cupid and the rape of Lucretia, noting foreshortening and dramatic light.
Giordano 1214:30
Explore Luca Giordano's masterworks, from annunciations and the virgin in the temple to dramatic baroque scenes, highlighting diagonal composition, one-point perspective, and art evolution across centuries.
Giordano 136:02
Explore Luca Giordano's Madrid court years, highlighting his dynamic compositions, vivid color, and distinctive interpretations of biblical scenes such as the Birth of the Virgin and the Last Supper.
Giordano 1410:30
Explore Luca Giordano's renderings and etchings, learn step-by-step gesture drawings from head to toe, and compare engraving techniques, copperplate etching, and line-wash in mastering baroque composition.
Course Catalog12:49

Requirements

There are no requirements or prerequisites for this course.

Description

Welcome to this course on the Baroque Art of Luca Giordano. Luca Giordano, 1634 – 1705, was a Master Neapolitan late Baroque painter and printmaker in etching. A virtuoso of figurative painting. The course contents include an Introduction, The Mentors and Teachers of Giordano, Giotto di Bondone, Jusepe de Rivera, Paolo Veronese, Pietro da Cortona, The Baroque, Luca Giordano - The Early Works from 1650, The Ten Philosophers 1650-1660, The Transition Years, Luca fa presto, The Master Works, Court painter in Spain 1692–1702, The Renderings and Etchings of Luca Giordano. Fluent and decorative, he worked successfully in Naples, Rome, Florence and Venice, before spending a decade in Spain. One of his nicknames, Proteus, was acquired as a result of his reputed skill in producing pastiches, an artistic work in a style that imitates that of another work, artist, or period. His other nickname was Luca Fa Presto, because he is said to have painted a large altarpiece in one day, it is no wonder that his output, both in oil and in fresco, was enormous. Luca Giordano’s range of subject matter was broad, however most of his pictures deal with religious or mythological themes. Giordano’s earliest dated works are from 1650.In this course we are going to study and enjoy one of the greatest masters of the Late Baroque. Welcome! I teach lecture courses and studios as I wish they would have been taught to me. Much of the graphic material in my lectures is taken or generated first hand directly by me on site. I teach to learn. I teach subjects as I wish they were taught to me. The Mission Statement. Education is a tool for the improvement of successive generations. I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. Confucius

This course is designed under the premise that humans should be taught in a way that is modeled after the educational patterns of evolution.

The design, development and application of educational systems based on the educational principles of evolution generates a philosophy and methodology of education in synchrony with the evolutionary education system that is firmly and deeply rooted in each of us.

Education for evolution is an educational system designed to help propel humans forward in the natural course of evolution. The purpose of education for evolution is to enhance and strengthen the natural evolutionary process of humans through the mechanism of education. The means to achieve this objective is the design of a curricula based on the same educational techniques and strategies used by natural evolution, enhanced and guided by the application of conscious educational decisions.

Who this course is for:

This course is for anyone interested in the history art.