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Domenico Antonio Vaccaro (1678-1745),

• Was an Italian painter, sculptor and architect.
• He created many important sculptural and architectural projects in Naples.
• Domenico Antonio Vaccaro was born in Naples.
• He was the son of Lorenzo Vaccaro.
• His father Lorenzo was a pupil of Cosimo Fanzago.
• Domenico Antonio Vaccaro first studied under his father, later he trained in the workshop of Francesco Solimena.
• He initially dedicated himself to painting but from around 1707 he appears to have practised almost exclusively as a sculptor and architect.
• In the 1730s he resumed painting.
• He also designed the Palazzo Tarsia and Palazzo Caravita at Portici, the church of San Giovanni at Capua, and he reconstructed the Cathedral of Bari. 
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