Domenico Antonio Vaccaro

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Domenico Antonio Vaccaro (June 3, 1678 – June 13, 1745) was an Italian painter, sculptor and architect, the son and pupil of Lorenzo Vaccaro. Lorenzo was in turn a pupil of Cosimo Fanzago and was part of a large family of artists including Andrea Vaccaro, a pupil of Girolamo Imparato. He was active in Naples, Italy in an late Baroque style.

Guardian Angel in San Paolo Maggiore
Immacolatella
Allegory:Papacy of Clement XI vanquishes Heresy

Domenico Antonio was born in Naples and his body of work is all in or near that city. Works of interest include a statue of Moses in the church of San Ferdinando, interior work at the Chiesa di Santa Maria in Portico, and the statues of Penitence and Solitude on the premises of the monastery (now museum) of San Martino.

He also designed the Palazzo Tarsia and Palazzo Caravita at Portici, the church of San Giovanni at Capua, and her reconstructed the Cathedral of Bari.[1] He helped reconstruct the church of Santa Maria della Pace, damaged after an earthquake. He designed the Palace of the Immacolatella at the water's edge in central Naples. He designed the small church of Santa Maria della Concezione a Montecalvario, Naples.

Works

Architecture

  • San Michele Arcangelo Church
  • San Michele Arcangelo (Saint Michael the Archangel) Church, Anacapri
  • Concezione a Montecalvario Church
  • Palazzo Spinelli di Tarsia
  • Large altar at the Sant'Anna di Palazzo Church
  • Completion of the San Domenico Obelisk
  • Large altar at San Giovanni Maggiore, Naples
  • Palazzo dell'Immacolatella
  • Marble foundations at Santa Maria in Portico church
  • Marble decorations at Santa Teresa degli Scalzi church
  • Santa Maria della Stella church (completion)
  • Villa Meola in Portici
  • Villa Maltese in Ercolano

Architectural restorations

  • Abbazia del Goleto
  • Insigne Chiesa Collegiata di Santa Maria delle Grazie, Marigliano
  • San Domenico Maggiore Church
  • Palazzo di Magnocavallo
  • Santi Bernardo e Margherita a Fonseca church
  • Santa Maria di Constantinopoli church
  • Santa Maria di Monteverginella church
  • Santa Chiara Cathedral
  • Stucco decorations of Santa Maria della Pace
  • Santa Pellegrino ed Emiliano church
  • Stucco decorations in San Sebastiano church, Guardia Sanframondi[2]
  • Santa Chiara Monastery, Nocera Inferiore[3]

Sculptures

  • Moses and David, San Ferdinando church
  • San Gennaro, Naples Cathedral
  • Bust of San Gennaro

Paintings[4]

References

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  1. ↑ F. Milizia
  2. ↑ ANCeSCAO Sez. di Cerreto Sannita, La Valle del Titerno, ANCESCAO, 2009.
  3. ↑ Il Pergamo (Il monastero di Santa Chiara in Nocera dei Pagani, Nocera Inferiore, 1961)
  4. ↑ Sources of Napoli e Dontorni, TCI, 2007

Sources

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