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FALCONE, ANIELLO (x600–x665)

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FALCONE, ANIELLO (x600–x665) , See also:Italian See also:battle-painter, was the son of a tradesman, and was See also:born in See also:Naples. He showed his See also:artistic tendency at an See also:early See also:age, received some instruction from a relative, and then studied under See also:Ribera (Lo Spagnoletto), of whom he ranks as the most eminent See also:pupil. Besides battle-pictures, large and small, taken from biblical as well as See also:secular See also:history, he painted various religious subjects, which, however, See also:count for little in his See also:general reputation. He became, as a battle-painter, almost as celebrated as See also:Borgognone (See also:Courtois), and was named " L' Oracolo delle Battaglie." His See also:works have animation, variety, truth to nature, and careful See also:colour. Falcone was bold, generous, used to arms, and an excellent fencer. In the insurrection of See also:Masaniello (1647) he resolved td be bloodily avenged for the See also:death, at the hands of two Spaniards, of a See also:nephew and of a pupil in the school of See also:art which he had established in Naples. He and many of his scholars, including Salvator See also:Rosa and Carlo Coppola, formed an armed See also:band named the Compagnia See also:delta Morte (" See also:Company of Death "; see Rosa, SALVATOR). They scoured the streets by See also:day, exulting in slaughter; at See also:night they were painters again, and handled the See also:brush with impetuous zeal. See also:Peace being restored, they had to decamp. Falcone and Rosa made off to See also:Rome; here Borgognone noticed the works of Falcone, and became his friend, and a See also:French See also:gentleman induced him to go to See also:France, where See also:Louis XIV. became one of his patrons. Ultimately See also:Colbert obtained permission for the painter to return to Naples, and there he died in 1665. Two of his battle-pieces are to be seen in the Louvre and in the Naples museum; he painted a portrait of Masaniello, and engraved a few plates.

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principal scholars, besides Rosa and Coppola (whose works are sometimes ascribed to Falcone himself), were Domenico Gargiuolo (named Micco Spadaro), See also:Paolo See also:Porpora and See also:Andrea di Lione.

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