Nicola Vaccaro (1640 – 1709)
• Was an Italian painter, theatre director and opera librettist in Naples.
• He was known for his religious and allegorical paintings who created easel paintings as frescos.
• He was a specialist figure painter who regularly collaborated with specialist still life painters on decorative Baroque still lifes and garland paintings.
• Vaccaro attempted to adapt the stylistic features of 17th-century Neapolitan tradition to the new Classicist and Baroque trends towards increasing Arcadian tendencies.
• He proposed his own specific form of Academism, aimed at revitalizing the figurative culture in Naples.
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Abraham Brueghel and Nicola Vaccaro, A Young Woman picking figs with Three Children in a Terraced Garden, with urns of Carnations, Morning Glory,and other Flowers, and Basket of Grapes.
Original, Sotheby`s, New York. Visited in 2020.
Abraham Brueghel and Nicola Vaccaro, A Young Woman picking figs with Three Children in a Terraced Garden, with urns of Carnations, Morning Glory,and other Flowers, and Basket of Grapes.
Abraham Brueghel and Nicola Vaccaro, A Young Woman picking figs with Three Children in a Terraced Garden, with urns of Carnations, Morning Glory,and other Flowers, and Basket of Grapes.
Abraham Brueghel and Nicola Vaccaro, A Young Woman picking figs with Three Children in a Terraced Garden, with urns of Carnations, Morning Glory,and other Flowers, and Basket of Grapes.
