Andrea Vaccaro

Andrea Vaccaro (c. May 8, 1600 – January 18, 1670) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mostly in Naples in a tenebrist style.

Born in Naples to a family of painters, including Domenico Antonio and Lorenzo Vaccaro, he first apprenticed with the late-Mannerist painter Girolamo Imparato. His initial paintings soon after 1620 show the influence of Caravaggio and his Neapolitan followers. He painted a copy of Caravaggio’s "Flagellation" (Galleria Nazionale di Capodimonte), at one time, both the copy and original hung together in San Domenico Maggiore. He also painted a "David with the Head of Goliath" (Florence) and "Saint Sebastian" (Capodimonte). After 1630, Vaccaro’s tenebrism became more illuminated and less harsh and he was patronized by the Spanish Viceroy, Gaspar de Bracamonte, Count of Penaranda; Gaspar Roomer; and Jan Vandeneyden. One of his pupils was Giuseppe Fattoruso.

References

* [http://www.artnet.com/library/08/0875/T087524.asp| Grove Encyclopedia entry on Artnet]
* [http://www.umfa.utah.edu/index.php?id=MjE&collection_id=20| Short biography.]
*The Spanish Viceroy, Luca Giordano, & Andrea Vaccaro, Harold E. Wethey. The Burlington Magazine (1967). P678-687.