# Adam and Eve in Paradise, in Baroque and Rococo

Francesco Solimena painted this in about 1700, aged about 38. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.

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## The work

- Date: c. 1700
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 128.2 × 101 cm (50 1/2 × 39 3/4 in.); Framed: 145.1 × 117.2 × 6.4 cm (57 1/8 × 46 1/8 × 2 1/2 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1983.1047
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Francesco Solimena](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/francesco-solimena), Italian, 1657–1747

Solimena was the dominant painter in Naples for half a century, continuing the grand decorative manner of Luca Giordano while giving it firmer drawing and stronger contrasts of light and shade.

3 works in the collection.

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