Francesco Solimena

Francesco Solimena
Self-portrait, 1730, Museo di Capodimonte, Naples
Born(1657-10-04)4 October 1657
Canale di Serino, province Avellino, Kingdom of Naples
Died3 April 1747(1747-04-03) (aged 89)
Naples, Kingdom of Naples
EducationFrancesco di Maria
Known forPainting
MovementBaroque
PatronsPope Benedict XIII

Francesco Solimena (4 October 1657 – 3 April 1747) was a prolific Italian Baroque painter, one of an established family of painters and draughtsmen. In his early years, influenced above all by Luca Giordano and Mattia Preti, he developed a highly personal and dramatic handling of light and shade, yet his later art reveals a tendency towards a more restrained classicism. Solimena had many pupils, making him one of the strongest influence in Neapolitan painting of the early 18th century.

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