FALCONE, ANIELLO (x600x665)

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FALCONE, ANIELLO (x600x665) , Italian battle-painter, was the son of a tradesman, and was born in Naples. He showed his artistic tendency at an early age, received some instruction from a relative, and then studied under Ribera (Lo Spagnoletto), of whom he ranks as the most eminent pupil. Besides battle-pictures, large and small, taken from biblical as well as secular history, he painted various religious subjects, which, however,

count

COUNT (Lat. comes, gen. comitis, Fr. comte, Ital. conte, Span. conde)

for little in his general reputation. He became, as a battle-painter, almost as celebrated as Borgognone (Courtois), and was named " L' Oracolo delle Battaglie." His works have animation, variety, truth to nature, and careful colour. Falcone was bold, generous, used to arms, and an excellent fencer. In the insurrection of

Masaniello

MASANIELLO

(1647) he resolved td be bloodily avenged for the death, at the hands of two Spaniards, of a nephew and of a pupil in the school of art which he had established in Naples. He and many of his scholars, including Salvator Rosa and Carlo Coppola, formed an armed band named the Compagnia

delta

DELTA (from the shape of the Gr. letter A, delta, originally used of the mouth of the Nile)

Morte (" Company of Death "; see Rosa, SALVATOR). They scoured the streets by day, exulting in slaughter; at night they were painters again, and handled the brush with impetuous zeal. Peace being restored, they had to decamp. Falcone and Rosa made off to Rome; here Borgognone noticed the works of Falcone, and became his friend, and a French

gentleman

GENTLEMAN (from Lat. gentilis, " belonging to a race or gens," and " man "; Fr. gentilhomme, Span. gentil hombre, Ital. gentil huomo, in its
original
- ORIGINAL
and strict signification, a
term
- TERM
denoting a man of good family, the Lat. generosus (its invariable transl

induced him to go to France, where Louis XIV. became one of his patrons. Ultimately 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

MASANIELLO

, and engraved a few plates. Among his

principal

PRINCIPAL

scholars, besides Rosa and Coppola (whose works are sometimes ascribed to Falcone himself), were Domenico Gargiuolo (named Micco Spadaro),

Paolo

PAOLO (GIROLAMO GASPARE)5 (1532-1600)

Porpora

PORPORA, NICCOLA [or NICCOLb] ANTONIO (1686—1767)

and

Andrea

ANDREA, GIOVANNI (1275-1348)

di Lione.

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