Lorenzo Vaccaro
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Lorenzo Vaccaro (1655 in Naples – August 10, 1706) was an Italian late-Baroque sculptor. He worked in a formalized restrained style.
He was born in Naples, the son of a lawyer. He apprenticed with Cosimo Fanzago and Dionisio Lazzari. He was a close friend of Francesco Solimena. He was murdered at Torre del Greco in August 1706.
His son Domenico Antonio Vaccaro was also a sculptor. The ceramic sculptor Giuseppe Laguidara was one of his pupils. .[1]
Works
- Marble monument of Francesco Rocco, Pietà dei Turchini church, Naples
References
- ↑ Boni, Filippo de' (1852). Biografia degli artisti ovvero dizionario della vita e delle opere dei pittori, degli scultori, degli intagliatori, dei tipografi e dei musici di ogni nazione che fiorirono da'tempi più remoti sino á nostri giorni. Seconda Edizione.. Venice; Googlebooks: Presso Andrea Santini e Figlio. pp. page 526.
Sources
- De Dominici, Bernardo (1742). Vite dei Pittori, Scultori, ed Architetti Napolitani, Volume III, number 30, the Vaccaro family. Stamperia del Ricciardi, Naples; Digitized by Googlebooks from Oxford University copy on February 1, 2007.
- A Bozzetto by Lorenzo Vaccaro Revies by Andrew Ciechanowiecki, The Burlington Magazine (1979) p250-253
- Bruce Boucher (1998). Thames & Hudson, World of Art, ed. Italian Baroque Sculpture. p. 80.
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