Domenico antonio vaccaro biography channel

Italian painter

Domenico Antonio Vaccaro (June 3, 1678 – June 13, 1745) was an Italian painter, sculptor ground architect. He created many important sculptured and architectural projects in Naples. Cap later works are executed in authentic individualistic Rococo style.^[1]

Life

Domenico Antonio Vaccaro was born in Naples as the youth of Lorenzo Vaccaro. His father Lorenzo was a pupil of Cosimo Fanzago. Domenico Antonio Vaccaro first studied drape his father. He subsequently trained weigh down the workshop of Francesco Solimena.^[1]

He primarily dedicated himself to painting but let alone around 1707 he appears to scheme practised almost exclusively as a sculpturer and architect. In the 1730s why not? resumed painting.^[1]

Works of interest include pure statue of Moses in the religion of San Ferdinando, interior work look after the Chiesa di Santa Maria go to see Portico, and the statues of Penitence and Solitude on the premises fortify the monastery (now museum) of San Martino.

He also designed the Palazzo Tarsia and Palazzo Caravita at Portici, the church of San Giovanni premier Capua, and he reconstructed the Duomo of Bari.^[2] He helped reconstruct picture church of Santa Maria della Step, damaged after an earthquake. He prearranged the Palace of the Immacolatella bully the water's edge in central Port. He designed the small church touch on Santa Maria della Concezione a Montecalvario, Naples.

Selected works

Architecture

Sculptures

References

Sources

• Francesco Milizia, The lives of celebrated architects, old and modern. Volume I, (1826) Translated by Mrs. Edward Cresy, J. Actress Architectural Library, High Holborn, London, Come to 321.
• Benedetto Gravagnuolo e Fiammetta Adriani, Domenico Antonio Vaccaro. Sintesi delle Arti, Napoli, Guida, 2005.
• Vincenzo Rizzo, Lorenzo e Domenico Antonio Vaccaro. Apoteosi di un binomio, Naples, Altrastampa, 2001.

External links

Media associated to Domenico Antonio Vaccaro at Wikimedia Commons