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(b Naples, June 3, 1678; d Naples, June 13, 1745). Italian sculptor, architect and painter, son of Lorenzo Vaccaro. He was a prolific and versatile artist who left his mark on the most important Neapolitan sculptural and architectural projects of the early 18th century and elicited special praise from the historian de Dominici for his contribution to the embellishment of the city. He trained in the workshop of his father and then with Francesco Solimena. Among his earliest surviving paintings, executed during the 1690s, are the Penitent St William of Aquitaine (Naples, S Agostino degli Scalzi), a work of complex composition, charged colours and dramatic chiaroscuro inspired by Mattia Preti’s work, and a bozzetto (Naples, Mus. N. S Martino) for the proposed vault decoration of the sacristy of S Domenico Maggiore. De Dominici suggested that it was Domenico’s failure to secure the S Domenico commission, which went to Solimena, that dissuaded him from pursuing a career as a painter. Certainly, from around ...