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
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Luca Giordano at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
The Entombment of Christ, ca.1659/60
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
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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
St. Cecilia at the organ surrounded by angels, pen and ink drawing, 1650-60
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
Louvre Museum Database, Paris
6 paintings
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French)
Luca Giordano at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History
The Annunciation, 1672
The Flight into Egypt
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Paintings collection online
National Gallery, London, UK
Luca Giordano at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
2 works by Luca Giordano
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
Luca Giordano at the Prado Museum, Madrid
Messina Returned to Spain, ca.1678
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Great scans of Rijksmuseum paintings, from the 'Memory of the Netherlands' project
Rijksmuseum Research Database, Amsterdam (in Dutch)
The Royal Collection, London, UK
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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
Hood Museum of Art, New Hampshire
The Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence
Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington - Provenance Research Project
3 paintings online
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
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)
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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
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2 works by Luca Giordano online
Pinacoteca Provinciale di Bari, Italy (in Italian)
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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
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The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German)
The Walters Art Museum, Maryland
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
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National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
The Last Supper
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)
Christie's Past Sale Archive NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Art Renewal Center
CGFA
Web Gallery of Art
WebMuseum 
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
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California State University WorldImages Database
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site
University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser
Additional Image Search Tools: NEW!
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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 
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Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)
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
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes)
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