Domenico Antonio Vaccaro
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Domenico Antonio Vaccaro was an Italian painter, sculptor and architect. He created many important sculptural and architectural projects in Naples. His later works are executed in an individualistic R
Guardian Angel in San Paolo Maggiore
Allegory of the Papacy of Clement XI, c. 1720, Walters Art Museum, Baltimora
Solomon Worshiping a Pagan God, 1695
Judgement of Solomon, c. 1690
Gesù Nuovo
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Gesù Nuovo is the name of both a church and a square in Naples, Italy. It is located just beyond the western edge of the city's historic center. To the southeast of the spire, one can see, just a bloc
Domenico Antonio Vaccaro
…for silversmiths, such as that for the monumental silver statue of the Virgin Immaculate, finished by 1724 for the high altar of the church of the Gesù Nuovo. He also made crib figures (e.g. Naples, National Museum of San Martino; Munich, Bavarian National Museum). Domenico Vaccaro was among those artists…
The Church of Gesù Nuovo.
View towards main altar
Entry, with Solimena's fresco The Expulsion of Heliodorus
Solimena's preliminary sketch in the Louvre, Paris