Democrates and Heraclites (pair)

(Luca Giordano)

These unusually fine representations of philosophers by Luca Giordano date early circa 1670.

The flower garlands are executed by Giuseppe Recco (Naples 1634 – 1695 Alicante)

W.Randolph Hearst
E.Hackcliffe, USA
Patrick Horne, Mass.

Langdon and G.Scavizzi, Liberation & Deliverance: Luca Giordano’s Liberation of St Peter, Naples 1663, London, Matthiesen Ltd., 2012, p.36, figs. 1a and 1b.

G.Scavizzi, The Young Giordano, adjunct to the catalogue in the course of publication 2012.

Scavizzi, Luca Giordano, his life and work, Naples, 2017, col. plates 19-20