Bartolomeo Vecchione is a late 18th-century Italian architect of the late-
Baroque
The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...
or Rococo period, active in and around Naples.
Little is known about his origins and training; he clearly appears influenced by
Ferdinando Sanfelice
Ferdinando Sanfelice (1675 – 1 April 1748) was an Italian late Baroque architect and painter.
Sanfelice was born in Naples and died there. He was one of the principal architects in Naples in the first half of the 18th century. He was a stude ...
and Luigi Vanvitelli, two contemporary masters of Southern architecture. He was the younger brother of the shipyard engineer, Luca Vecchione. Between 1747 and 1751, in collaboration with Crescenzo Torchese, he designed the structure of the elaborately decorated and remarkable pharmacy attached to the
Ospedale degli Incurabili
The Ospedale degli Incurabili (''Hospital for the Incurables'') or Complesso degli Incurabili is an ancient and prominent hospital complex located on Via Maria Longo in central Naples, Italy. Part of the complex, including the remarkable pharma ...
in central Naples. He aided in the reconstruction of the church of
San Francesco delle Monache
San Francesco delle Monache is a Baroque-style church located in via Santa Chiara, in Naples, Italy.
History
A church at the site was first constructed for the nuns of an Order of St Clare in the 14th century by Robert of Anjou and his wife. ...
with the construction of an atrium in stucco and marble preceded by a gate in piperno performed by Torchese.
Between 1750 and 1760, he was active in the design and construction the church of the Annunciation in
Giugliano in Campania
Giugliano in Campania , also known simply as Giugliano, is a city and ''comune'' in the Metropolitan City of Naples, Campania, Italy. , it had some 124,000 inhabitants,Santissima Immacolata Concezione di Maria e San Vincenzo Ferrera (Chiesa dell'Immacolata e San Vincenzo) and a screen house in Via San Vincenzo, on the left of the church. In 1766, he worked on lava formed routes along the Via Foria leading to the Albergo Reale dei Poveri in Naples. He also worked on the facade of the church of the Immaculate Conception (also called the ''Le Crocelle'') at via Chiatamone in Naples. In 1769, he worked with Carlo Zoccoli and
Gaetano Barba
Gaetano (anglicized ''Cajetan'') is an Italian masculine given name. It is also used as a surname. It is derived from the Latin ''Caietanus'', meaning "from ''Caieta''" (the modern Gaeta). The given name has been in use in Italy since medieval p ...
in studying the collapse of the façade of the Palazzo del Banco and its oratory. He worked in 1769–1770 on the reconstruction of the facade of the church of the
Pietà dei Turchini
The Church of Pietà dei Turchini is a religious building in Naples, Italy. A smaller church, located on Rua Catalana, was built originally in 1592–1595 by the Confraternity of the Incoronatella. This church was nearly destroyed by an explosio ...