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Fig.4. LUCA GIORDANO, Fortitude, Formerly Christie’s London South
Kensington 17’12.98 n. 57.

Fig.5. LUCA GIORDANO, Jacob’s Dream, London,The British Museum.

Fig.3. LUCA GIORDANO, The Four Apostles, Formerly Christie’s
London South Kensington 17.12.98 n. 60.

of which versions from 1650-1651, 1654 and 1656 are

documented. De Dominici stated in his biography of the

painter that ‘He [Giordano] said that he had drawn many,

many times the Logge, and the Stanze of Raphael, and no

less than twelve times the whole Battle of Constantine
painted by the excellent Giulio Romano.’27 The earliest

of these surviving drawings after Raphael (this one not,

in fact, from the Stanze) is The Four Apostles from the Trans-
figuration, recently on the art market [Fig. 3].28 Giordano

rendered with rather poor approximation the four apostles

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