# Presentation of Mary at the Temple

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## Artwork

- Artist: [GIORDANO, Luca](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/giordano-luca-r27ac41033d0f23>)
- Date: 1651-1700
- Technique: Oil on canvas, 270 x 540 cm

## Commentary

Commissioned from Giordano a few years after the Assumption \(signed and dated 1667\) in the same church, the work was sent from Naples to Venice with the Nativity of the Virgin, to take its place on the first altar on the right.

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## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)