Saint John The Evangelist At Pathmos Writes The Book Of Revelation

Antonio Domenico Vaccaro (Naples 1678-1745) "Saint John the Evangelist at Pathmos receives the visit of the Virgin and Child" Oil on canvas Canvas 80 x 64 frame 95 x 79 This beautiful painting represents the apparition of the Virgin to Saint John the Evangelist who, exiled in Greece on the island of Pathmos, intends to write the “Book of Revelation”. It is a very rare and particularly interesting subject in front of the greatest masters of ancient painting and here painted in the most typical stylistic canons of the late Neapolitan Baroque with the splendid and lively range of colors that distinguishes it. The author of the work is Antonio Domenico Vaccaro, one of the most valuable Neapolitan painters of the early 1700s who was part of that group of famous painters who brought the magnificent Neapolitan Baroque school to life. Vaccaro, who was also an excellent sculptor and a good architect, was a pupil of his father Lorenzo and Francesco Solimena. His painting expresses an elegant synthesis between Solimena and Luca Giordano, evident in the large decorations of ecclesiastical buildings but also in paintings of smaller format like ours. The work is still in first canvas and is in excellent condition, with a beautiful gilded frame. Tracked and insured shipping with packaging in a wooden case.