Giovanni Domenico d'Auria, Annibale Caccavello e l''Apostolato' dell Annunziata di Napoli

• Autores: Paola Coniglio
• Localización: Prospettiva: rivista di storia dell'arte antica e moderna, ISSN 0394-0802, Nº. 139-140, 2010, págs. 137-150
• Idioma: italiano
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• Resumen

  • In 1757 the Neapolitan Church of Santissima Annunziata was destroyed by fire and most of the works of art within were lost. Those that survive are housed in the Succorpo, which is the underground church that was built by Luigi Vanvitelli who was in charge of reconstruction. Among those that survive are two monumental works depicting Sant’ Andrea (1544-47 ca.) and Saint John the Baptist (1555-1557), that with a close reading of certain documents in conjunction with a stylistic analysis allow us to attribute them to Giovan Domenico d’Auria and Annibale Caccavello, the two most prolific masters of marble active in Naples in the mid sixteenth century. Compared with the Precursor by Caccavello, the Sant’ Andrea is characterized by a higher style and a more accentuated plastic strength, even if it is d’Auria’s first sculpture of a full-bodied figure. The attribution to this artist allows the ascription of two other marbles, both representing St. John the Baptist, conserved in Capua and Pizzo Calabro (Vibo Valentia) as well as a St. James housed in the famous Caracciolo di Vico chapel in the Neapolitan church of San Giovanni a Carbonara.