I need to know more about the Italian Baroque artist - Luca Giordano.

Luca Giordano (born Oct. 18, 1632 , Naples died Jan. 3, 1705, Naples)
(according to the Encyclopędia Britannica, but The National Gallery of
Arts specified his birth year to be 1634): the most celebrated and
prolific Neapolitan painter in the 17th century.  He earned the
nickname "Luca, fa presto" (Luca, work quickly) from an advice from
his father Antonio Giordano, a painter-copyist.  He had a reputation
for being able to reproduce the style of almost any artist.  From this
reputation, he earned his other nickname, Proteus [A sea-god, the son
of Oceanus and Tethys, fabled to assume various shapes].
Giordano's earliest dated work is of 1651.  In the beginning of his
career, he probably trained with José de Ribera [Jusepe de Ribera],
who employed a dark and dramatic style.  He travelled with his father
to Rome, Florence, and Venice and as a result his style underwent an
important change.  He abandoned "sober drama in favour of a more
decorative approach" after he had seen the lightness and brightness of
Veronese's decorative works in Venice and the works of Pietro da
Cortona in Rome and Florence.  Giordano's huge ceiling fresco in the
ballroom of the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi, Florence (began in 1682 and
done in 1683) shows clearly the influence of da Cortona's frescoes in
the Pitti Palace, Florence.
In 1692 he went to Spain as court painter to Charles II, returning to
Naples in 1702. The frescoes in El Escorial are generally considered
to be his best works, but he also painted nearly 50 other frescoes
while in Spain, now in the Prado, Madrid. His last great work was the
ceiling of the Cappella del Tesoro in S. Martino (1702-1704).  During
World War II, many of his frescoes were destroyed or damaged.

During his lifetime he produced an enormous number of frescoes and oil
paintings.  He was said to havepainted a large altarpiece in one day. 
His range of subject matter was enormous, although most of his
pictures have religious or mythological themes.

Links to his works:
http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/g/giordano/
http://www.getty.edu/art/collections/objects/o576.html
http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/psearch?Request=S&imageset=1&Person=201960
http://museoprado.mcu.es/prado/html/isala1a.html
http://makeashorterlink.com/?A231521A1
http://makeashorterlink.com/?N121321A1
http://search.famsf.org/4d.acgi$Search?list&=1&=luca&=And&=Yes&=giordano&=&=&=Yes&=Yes&=f

Sources: 
"Giordano, Luca" Encyclopędia Britannica
<http://search.eb.com/eb/article?eu=37613>
[Accessed August 28, 2002]. 
http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/pbio?201960
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/giordano_luca.html

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