Francesco Vaccaro also known as Vaccari, Vacari (24 September 1636 – 13 December 1675) was an Italian painter and engraver of the

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period, who trained in his native

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under

Francesco Albani Francesco Albani or Albano (17 March or 17 August 1578 – 4 October 1660) was an Italian Baroque painter who was active in Bologna (1591–1600), Rome (1600–1609), Bologna (1609), Viterbo (1609–1610), Bologna (1610), Rome (1610–1617), ...

. He was chiefly known as a painter, from his

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and architectural views. He published a treatise entitled ''Views and Perspectives of Ruins, Fountains and Buildings of Italy'', embellished with twelve copper plates. Two copies of this treatise are kept at the Repossi Art Gallery in

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, in the province of

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, while four others are in the

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. Vaccaro's work as a painter mainly involved decorating noble palaces in his hometown and neighbouring cities: the art historian

Carlo Cesare Malvasia Carlo Cesare Malvasia (1616–1693) was an Italian scholar and art historian from Bologna, best known for his biographies of Baroque artists titled ''Felsina pittrice'', published in 1678. Life and career Malvasia is the Bolognese equivalen ...

(1616-1693) noted in his work Felsina Pittrice (1678) that Vaccaro had painted "the frescoes in chiaroscuro colours in the chapel of S. Apollonia, in the church of the saints Vitale and Agricola; ..and in the Vizzani palace he painted two rooms, ..two rooms in the Palazzo de Ratta. Then he added that 'in the Palazzo de'Fontana di San Mamolo he painted a whole gallery up to the ground with various puttini and architectures' but that he himself went to see the work to describe it in his book and found it to be 'in modern use, all covered in white'. It had therefore already been destroyed by the owners of the building and covered with white plaster. Also according to Malvasia, towards the year 1670 Vaccaro secretly left Bologna, so that he would not have to testify about a murder committed by one of his acquaintances.

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* ;Specific 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Italian landscape painters Painters from Bologna Italian Baroque painters Painters of ruins 1636 births 1675 deaths {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub