Cosimo Fanzago
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Cosimo Fanzago was an Italian architect and sculptor, active in Naples, Italy in the Baroque period.
Self-portrait
Main altar in Gesù Nuovo, Naples
Facade for S. Maria Egiziaca
Tomb of Girolamo Flerio (chiesa di Santa Maria di Costantinopoli, Naples)
Lorenzo Vaccaro
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Lorenzo Vaccaro was an Italian late-Baroque sculptor. He worked in a formalized restrained style.
Cosimo Fanzago
…1657–8), the Guglia di San Gaetano (1657–70), and the Fountain of Monteoliveto (1668–76). He died on 13 February 1678, aged 87. One of his pupils was Lorenzo Vaccaro. By 1612, Fanzago had achieved the status of ‘maestro di scoltura di marmo’. His technical virtuosity derived from his training among Tuscan sculptors…
Virgin of the Immaculate Conception, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York