LUCA GIORDANO (NAPLES 1634-1705)

This picture is an autograph version of the Education of the Virgin, dated by Ferrari and Scavizzi to circa 1690, now in Palazzo Spinola, Genoa (see O. Ferrari and G. Scavizzi, Luca Giordano, L’opera completa, Naples, 1992, I, p. 327, no. A476).

We are grateful to Professor Nicola Spinosa for confirming the attribution on the basis of photographs, and for dating the work to circa 1685-90. Dr. Giuseppe Scavizzi has expressed reservations about the attribution to Giordano on the basis of photographs.