Francesco Vaccaro

Architectural Capriccio with a Fountain by Francesco Vaccaro, British Museum

Francesco Vaccaro or Vicaro (24 September 1636 – 13 December 1675) was an Italian painter and engraver of the Baroque period, who trained in his native Bologna under Francesco Albani. He was chiefly known as a painter, from his landscape and architectural views. He published a treatise on perspective, embellished with plates designed and engraved by himself. His prints consist of twelve perspective views of ruins, fountains, and other edifices in Italy.

References

• Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong & Robert Edmund Graves, ed. Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume II L-Z). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons. p. 602.