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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 Naples
Work location
Naples (1651–1678), Rome (1654), Florence (1679–1682), Venice (1667), Bergamo (1685), Madrid (ca. 1692–1702), Naples (1702–1705)
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q332494
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
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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