Augusta Stylianou Gallery

Paintings

Meeting of Isaac and Rebecca

Saint Gaetano Refuses Offerings from Count Antonio Caracciolo d’Oppido

King Midas

Saint Agatha

Tobias Heals his Blind Father

Tobias and the Fish

Loth and his daughters

Penitent Magdalene

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Saint Agatha

Andrea Vaccaro

Andrea Vaccaro (c. May 8, 1600 – January 18, 1670) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mostly in Naples in a tenebrist style.

Born in Naples to a family of painters, including Domenico Antonio and Lorenzo Vaccaro, he first apprenticed with the late-Mannerist painter Girolamo Imparato. His initial paintings soon after 1620 show the influence of Caravaggio and his Neapolitan followers. He painted a copy of Caravaggio’s Flagellation (Galleria Nazionale di Capodimonte), at one time, both the copy and original hung together in San Domenico Maggiore. He also painted a David with the Head of Goliath (Florence) and Saint Sebastian (Capodimonte). Vaccaro was both a friend and competitor of Massimo Stanzioni. After 1630, Vaccaro’s tenebrism became more illuminated and less harsh, influence by more sedate sources such as Guido Reni and Pietro da Cortona. He was patronized by the Spanish Viceroy in Naples, Gaspar de Bracamonte, 3rd Count of Peñaranda; Gaspar Roomer; and Jan Vandeneyden. One of his pupils was Giuseppe Fattoruso.

References

* Grove Encyclopedia entry on Artnet
* Short biography.
* The Spanish Viceroy, Luca Giordano, & Andrea Vaccaro, Harold E. Wethey. The Burlington Magazine (1967). P678-687.
* Catalogue of the Pictures, which Formed the Collection of Joseph Capece Latro, Ancient Archbishop of Taranto, &c. in the Kingdom of Naples: Now Exhibited in the City Dispensary, in White Street, for the Benefit of that Charitable Institution By New York Dispensary, New York, New York Dispensary, Giuseppe Capecelatro

Published by s.n., 1835 (page 25).

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