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[/td][td]{{Short description|Italian sculptor (1515β1595)}}[/td] [td][[File:Annibale_Caccavello_e_Giovanni_Domenico_D'Auria,_Sepolcro_di_Nicolantonio_Caracciolo,_1573.jpg|thumb|Tomb of Nicola Antonio Caracciolo, {{circa|1547}}; Naples, San Giovanni a Carbonara, Cappella Caracciolo di Vico]][/td] [td]'''Annibale Caccavello''' (1515β1595) was an Italian sculptor of the [[Renaissance]], active in his native city of [[Naples]].[/td]
[td]'''Annibale Caccavello''' (1515{{snd}}1595) was an Italian sculptor of the [[Renaissance]], active in his native city of [[Naples]].[/td] [td][/td]
[td][/td] [td]== Biography ==[/td] [td]He trained under [[Giovanni Merliano]] (Giovanni da Nola). He was a fellow pupil with [[Domenico Auria]]. He participated in the sculptural decoration of the ''Caracciolo di Vico Chapel'' in the church of [[San Giovanni a Carbonara]], to which Annibale contributed the statues of Saints Andrew, John the Baptist, and Augustine. He also contributed to the statuary of the Fontana dei 4 del Molo. He also worked on the tomb sculptures of [[Odet Foix de Lautrec]] and [[Pedro Navarro, Count of Oliveto|Pedro Navarro]] present at the church of [[Santa Maria La Nova, Naples|Santa Maria La Nova]], the tomb of Porzia Capece Rota in the Basilica of [[San Domenico Maggiore]], and the funeral urn of Fabrizio Brancaccio in the church of [[Santa Maria delle Grazie Maggiore a Caponapoli, Naples|Santa Maria delle Grazie Maggiore a Caponapoli]], finished by [[Camillo Minieri Riccio]].[/td] [td]Annibale Caccavello was born in Naples in 1515. The son of a supplier of marble, he was one of the most important Neapolitan artists of the 16th century. His earliest work was probably executed in the workshop of [[Giovanni Merliano]], where he made the acquaintance of [[Domenico Auria]], with whom he later formed a partnership and frequently collaborated. The marble statues of the ''Risen Christ'', ''St. Nicholas of Bari'', ''St. Francis and the two Angels'' on the tomb of Sigismondo Sanseverino di Saponara (Naples, [[Santi Severino e Sossio]]) probably belong to this early period, as do many of the bas-reliefs depicting ''Episodes in the Conquest of the Kingdom of Naples'' on the base of the tomb of the Viceroy of Naples, Don [[Pedro de Toledo (viceroy of Naples)|Pedro de Toledo]] (Naples, [[San Giacomo degli Spagnoli, Naples]]). The relief depicting the ''Conversion of St. Paul'' (1539; Naples, [[Santa Maria delle Grazie Maggiore a Caponapoli]]) is documented as by Domenico Auria but sometimes attributed to Caccavello.[/td] [td][/td] [td]From 1547 to 1567 Caccavello kept a full diary of his career. The Tuscan [[Mannerism]] of [[Giovanni Angelo Montorsoli]] emerges in a number of works, for example certain parts of the monument to Don Pedro de Toledo, the decoration of the tomb of Nicola Antonio Caracciolo, Marchese di Vico ({{circa|1547}}; Naples, San Giovanni a Carbonara, Cappella Caracciolo di Vico), to which Annibale contributed the statues of Saints Andrew, John the Baptist, and Augustine, the relief depicting the ''Virgin and Child in Glory with Souls in Purgatory'' (1550; Capua, Museo Provinciale Campano), executed in collaboration with Domenico Auria, the tombs of [[Odet de Foix, Viscount of Lautrec]], and [[Pedro Navarro]] (1551; [[Santa Maria La Nova, Naples]]) and the tomb of Alfonso Basurto (1554; Naples, San Giacomo degli Spagnoli).[/td] [td][/td] [td]In collaborating with Auria, Caccavello experimented with Mannerist decoration and forms of portrait iconography then unfamiliar but later used in 17th-century Neapolitan sculpture. In the tombs of Hans Walter von Hiernheim (1557; Naples, San Giacomo degli Spagnoli) and Scipione Somma (1557; Naples, San Giovanni a Carbonara) the emphasis on portraiture is subordinated to the decorative scheme.[/td] [td][/td] [td]Caccavello also worked on the tomb of Porzia Capece Rota in the Basilica of [[San Domenico Maggiore]], and the funeral urn of Fabrizio Brancaccio in the church of [[Santa Maria delle Grazie Maggiore a Caponapoli, Naples|Santa Maria delle Grazie Maggiore a Caponapoli]], finished by Camillo Minieri Riccio. Caccavelloβs last works were mostly finished by his brother Desiato Caccavello and by another relative, Salvatore Caccavello.[/td] [td][/td]
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