Tag Archives: Andrea Vaccaro, Neapolitan Baroque, Italian Baroque painting, seventeenth-century art, Caravaggism, Jusepe de Ribera, Guido Reni, Massimo Stanzione, religious painting, biblical painting, mythological

Andrea Vaccaro (1604–1670) enjoyed considerable prominence in the artistic life of seventeenth-century Naples. His paintings were sought after by ecclesiastical patrons and private collectors, circulated widely beyond his native city and found an especially receptive market in Spain. His reputation was recognised by writers elsewhere in Europe, while the eighteenth-century Neapolitan historian Onofrio Giannone wentContinue reading “Andrea Vaccaro: A Selection of Works”