# The Massacre of the Giustiniani at Chios [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [SOLIMENA, Francesco]() - Date: 1701-1750 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 275 x 163 cm ## Commentary In Naples in the beginning of the 18th century there flourished a whole school of decorative painters. Solimena, with his crowds of figures swirling through eddies and shades, still belonged to the line of the 'tenebrosi'. This painting in the Capodimonte Museum is the sketch for one of the large-scale compositions for the Senate Chamber in Genoa. The space follows the same laws of perspective as those used by Padre Pozzo in Rome. ## Related artworks - [Allegory of Reign]() - [Bathsheba Bathing]() - [Battle between Lapiths and Centaurs]() - [Ceiling painting]() - [Dido Receiving Aeneas and Cupid Disguised as Ascanius]() - [Expulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple]() - [Expulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple]() - [Fall of Simon Magus \(detail\)]() - [Fall of Simon Magus]() - [Frieze \(detail\)]() - [Frieze \(detail\)]() - [General view of the sacristy]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()