Artist

Luca Giordano

1632–1705 · born in Naples

Luca Giordano was a Neapolitan painter, born in 1632. He painted so fast that people called him Luca Fa Presto, Luca Work Fast. His huge, swirling ceilings and altarpieces decorated palaces and churches in Italy and Spain. He died in Naples in 1705.