Italian family of artists. (1) Lorenzo Vaccaro, primarily a sculptor, and (2) Domenico Antonio Vaccaro, a sculptor, architect and sometime painter, had much influence on Neapolitan style in the late 17th century and the early 18th.
He trained in the workshop of his father and then with Francesco Solimena. Among his earliest surviving paintings, executed during the 1690s, are the Penitent St William of Aquitaine (Naples, S Agostino degli Scalzi), a work of complex composition, charged colours and dramatic chiaroscuro inspired by Mattia Preti's work, and a bozzetto (Naples, Mus. N. S Martino) for the proposed vault decoration of the sacristy of S Domenico Maggiore. De Dominici suggested that it was Domenico's failure to secure the S Domenico commission, which went to Solimena, that dissuaded him from pursuing a career as a painter. Certainly, from around 1707 he appears to have practised almost exclusively as a sculptor and architect, until during the 1730s he resumed painting, executing large works in an individualistic Rococo style for the Collegiata at Marigliano, the Monteverginella in Naples, and for many other Neapolitan churches.
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