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Description: | Signed: yes Description: The Neapolitan Andrea Vaccaro (1604-1670) was one of a number of successful artists active in his native city during the middle years of the seventeenth century. However while he introduced no innovations and had no significant followers, his style, combining a pallid interpretation of Caravaggism with the restraint of Bolognese Classicism derived from Reni and Domenichino was popular among patrons. The Chiswick painting shows the artist at his most fluid, applying broad impasto laden strokes that recall Bernardo Cavallino (d. 1656) but with none of his dynamic vigour. Instead the Adoration of the Magi is a dense work in which the solid volumes of the static figures are firmly grounded in space, their forms are depicted with academic control while the subdued palette of ochre tones lends a superficial quality of tenebrismo derived from Ribera and his followers Fracanzano and Falcone who both died in the plague of 1656. It is likely that the Chiswick painting pre-dates this event. | Subjects: | religion (Adoration of the Magi) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Vaccaro, Andrea (Italian engineer, act.1762) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8730... | Go to resource |
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