The Lamentation
Andrea Vaccaro
1652
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
128 × 156.9 cm (50 3/8 × 61 3/4 in.); Framed: 139.4 × 166.4 × 7.7 cm (54 7/8 × 65 1/2 × 3 in.)
Classification
painting
Department
Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
35195
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Andrea Vaccaro · 1604–1670
Andrea Vaccaro (baptized May 8, 1604, Naples—died January 18, 1670, Naples) emerged as one of the most prolific and commercially successful painters of the Neapolitan Baroque. Born to Pietro Baccaro, a man of legal profession, and Gioanna di Glauso, Vaccaro initially pursued literature before committing to art at age sixteen. He studied under the minor artist Giovanni Tommaso Passaro, honing his s...