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Luca Giordano: Perseus turning Phineas and his Followers to Stone  wikidata:Q26708438 reasonator:Q26708438
Artist
Luca Giordano  (–1705)  wikidata:Q332494 q:it:Luca Giordano
 
Luca Giordano
Alternative names
Lucas Jordán, Luca Jordanus, Luca Fa Presto
Description Italian painter, drawer, etcher and engraver
Date of birth/death 18 October 1634 / 1632 Edit this at Wikidata 3 January 1705 / 12 January 1705 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Naples Edit this at Wikidata Naples Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
Naples (1651–1678), Rome (1654), Florence (1679–1682), Venice (1667), Bergamo (1685), Madrid (ca. 1692–1702), Naples (1702–1705)
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artist QS:P170,Q332494
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Title
Perseus Turning Phineus and his followers to Stone
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre mythological painting Edit this at Wikidata
Description
English: Phineus holds aloft the head of Medusa, which turns "Phineus and his followers to stone". He cannot look for obvious reasons.
Date early 1680s
date QS:P571,+1680-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P4241,Q40719727
Medium painting
Dimensions height: 285 cm (112.2 in) Edit this at Wikidata; width: 366 cm (12 ft) Edit this at Wikidata
dimensions QS:P2048,+285U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,+366U174728
institution QS:P195,Q180788
Accession number
NG6487 (National Gallery) Edit this at Wikidata
References
Source/Photographer http://www.uwm.edu/Course/mythology/0800/1429.jpg

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22:43, 4 September 2008 User:Yohan euan o4 <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/89/Perseus_Turning_Phineas_and_his_Followers_to_Stone.jpg"><img alt="Thumbnail for version as of 22:43, 4 September 2008" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Perseus_Turning_Phineas_and_his_Followers_to_Stone.jpg/120px-Perseus_Turning_Phineas_and_his_Followers_to_Stone.jpg" width="120" height="94" border="0" /></a>838×656 101 KB {{Artwork |title = |Description={{en|1=<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perseus" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Perseus">Perseus</a> holds the head <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medusa" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Medusa">Medusa</a>, which turns "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Phineas">Phineas</a> and his followers to stone". He cannot look for obvious reasons.}} |Source=http://www.uwm.edu/Course/myt

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