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Luca Giordano Works Online
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Original works by Luca Giordano available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas NEW!
(There is a "Download" link for zooming in on some works, but confusingly this may take a while to become active)
Luca Giordano at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
The Entombment of Christ, ca.1659/60
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK
The Marriage Feast at Cana, drawing
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
7 works by Giordano
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Allegory, 1670
Kress Foundation Collection
(Look for the "Image" links for super high resolution scans)
Deposition of Christ, ca.1655
Kunsthistorisches Museum Databank, Vienna (in German) 
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna
Isaac Blesses Jacob (Zoom)
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna
Mars and Venus, Captured by Vulcan, 1670 (Zoom)
Luca Giordano at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Adoration of the Shepherds, ca.1688
Luca Giordano at the Louvre Museum, Paris
The Marriage of the Virgin, ca.1688
Luca Giordano at the Louvre Museum, Paris
St. Cecilia at the organ surrounded by angels, 1650-60
Louvre Museum Database, Paris
6 paintings
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW! 
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History
The Annunciation, 1672
The Flight into Egypt
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 
Madonna and Child with Souls in Purgatory, ca.1665
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Paintings collection online
National Gallery, London, UK
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Includes a biography of the artist
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Luca Giordano at the Prado Museum, Madrid
In-depth analysis of Giordano's ceiling fresco in the Casón del Buen Retiro
Prado Museum Database, Madrid NEW!
(Linking to the Spanish-language version because it contains far more works than the English version)
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam NEW!
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. NEW!
The Royal Collection, London, UK
12 works online
Akademie der Bildenden Künst, Vienna (in German)
Venus and Mars Imprisoned by Vulcan
Art Gallery at the University of New Hampshire, Durham
Venice Crowned, ink and wash drawing
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
The Toilet of Bathsheba
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto - Provenance Research
The Plague
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto - Provenance Research
St. Sebastian and the Holy Women
Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK
Ball State Museum of Art, Indiana
Rest on the Flight into Egypt, 1675
Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, Illinois
Venus, Hercules and Mercury (Allegory of Divine Wisdom)
Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery, Greenville, South Carolina
Bowes Museum, County Durham, UK
The Triumph of Judith
Ca' Rezzonico - Museo del Settecento Veneziano, Venice (in Italian)
Apollo and Daphne
Christchurch Art Gallery / Te Puna O Waiwhetu, New Zealand
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Count Harrach Collection at Rohrau Castle, Vienna
The Judgement of Paris
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Hood Museum of Art, New Hampshire
The Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, France (in French)
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, France (in French)
(If the image is not clickable, click "Agrandir l'image" to enlarge the image)
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, France (in French)
Le Bon Samaritain
Musei Civici di Ascoli Piceno, Marche Region, Italy (in Italian)
Transito di San Giuseppe
Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia, Spain (in Spanish)
Toma de Gaeta
Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia, Spain (in Spanish)
San Bartolomé
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina (in Spanish)
Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan, Italy
Museum Collection Database for the Region of Haute-Normandie, France
Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig (in German)
Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig (in German)
Museum of the Hispanic Society of America, New York City
Ecstasy of St. Mary Magdalene
Narodna Galerija (National Gallery), Ljubljana, Slovenia (in Slovenian)
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
The Archangel Gabriel appearing to St Zachary, ca.1650
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
The Rape of the Sabines, ca.1680
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
2 works online
National Museum of Art of Romania
Hercule's Fight with Centaurus Nessus
National Museum of Art of Romania
The Circumcision
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
The Finding of Moses, ca.1685-90
Palais Fesch Musée des Beaux-Arts, Ajaccio, France (in French)
Palazzo Montecitorio, Rome (mostly in Italian)
Venere dormiente
Palazzo Ruspoli, Rome (in Italian)
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Pinacoteca Provinciale di Bari, Italy (in Italian)
(Click on the picture of a diskette to expand images)
S. Giovanni da Capestrano appare a S. Pietro d'Alcantara
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)
La nativité
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
Judith Displaying the Head of Holofernes, 1703-04
The Discovery of the Body of Holofernes, 1703-04
Seattle Art Museum
Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (in German)
The Death of Lucretia
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen
Click "English" at the top right to switch the default language, then click "Search"
The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German)
The Walters Art Museum, Maryland NEW!
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
(Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
Quite a few works online
Flemish Art Collection Database, Belgium (in Dutch)
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)
UK National Inventory of Continental European Paintings (NICE)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Art Signature Dictionary NEW!
Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Luca Giordano at The Art Renewal Center
Luca Giordano in the Web Gallery of Art
Luca Giordano in the WebMuseum 
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
(a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
California State University WorldImages Database
CGFA
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
Memory of the Netherlands Project
Great scans; use your mouse wheel to zoom in on the detail images
RKD Netherlands Imagebase NEW!
Eclectic database of images that range from old black-and-white photos to superb, zoomable reproductions
State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site
Additional Image Search Tools:
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)
Miscellaneous Sites:
Art Museum Image Consortium
The Battle between the Israelites and the Amalekites
Collection of the Banca Popolare di Sondrio, Italy (in Italian)
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Luca Giordano 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
International Herald Tribune (now part of the New York Times organization)
"Will the Real Giordano Stand Up?," article by Roderick Conway Morris
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