Ascanio Luciani

Born in Naples, Ascanio Luciani was thirteen when the architectural painter Viviano Codazzi arrived in 1634.  When Codazzi left for Rome, Luciani was only twenty-six. Whilst clearly heavily influenced by Codazzi, Luciani was still a young man when he established his own studio and later developed an unmistakably individual style. However, as David Marshall observes, Luciani had clearly been working in Codazzi’s studio during these early years (see: D. R. Marshall, ‘Ascanio Luciani a Neapolitan follower of Viviano Codazzi’, in: Paragone 39, Florence 1988).

By 1647 he had become a prolific artist in his own right.  In the past, many of his works were wrongly attributed to Codazzi, to such a degree that he earned the n   ...  Displaying 750 of 1839 characters.