Aniello Falcone
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Aniello Falcone (15 November 1600 – 1656) was an Italian Baroque painter, active in Naples and noted for his painted depictions of battle scenes. Some sources refer to him as Ancillo Falcone.[1]
Biography
Born in Naples the son of a tradesman, he showed his artistic tendency at an early age. He first received some instruction from a relative, before becoming one of the most prominent pupils of José de Ribera.[2]
He is best known for his battle scenes, their subjects taken from both biblical and secular history, and was nicknamed L'Oracolo delle Battaglie.[2] He gained an international reputation; his works attracted the attention of the Flemish dealer and collector Gaspar Roomer, who sold his work across Europe, and he was one of the artists commissioned by Philip IV of Spain to paint a series of scenes from ancient Roman history for the Buen Retiro palace.[3] He also painted various religious subjects such as the signed and dated Rest on the Flight to Egypt of 1641 (Naples Cathedral) and his frescoes for the chapel of Sant' Agata In S. Paolo Maggiore, Naples of around the same time.[3]
The attribution of his battle scenes is complicated by the similarity of those of his pupil Andrea di Leone, with which they have often been confused.[3]
During the insurrection against Spanish rule led by Masaniello in 1647, he resolved to 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.[2] Salvator Rosa, Carlo Coppola, among others, and he formed an armed band called the Compagnia della Morte ("Company of Death").
When the revolt was crushed, Falcone and Rosa made off to Rome, where Borgognone noticed the works of Falcone, and became his friend, and a Frenchman induced him to go to France, where Louis XIV became one of his patrons. Ultimately Jean-Baptiste Colbert obtained permission for the painter to return to Naples,[2] where he died during the plague of 1656.[4]
Two of his battle-pieces are in the Louvre and in the Naples museum; he painted a portrait of Masaniello, and engraved a few plates. His pupils included Salvator Rosa and Carlo Coppola, Domenico Gargiulo (known as Micco Spadaro), Paolo Porpora and Andrea di Lione.[2]
Gallery
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Aniello Falcone - The Concert - WGA7731.jpg
The Concert, Museo del Prado, Madrid
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Riposofugaegitto.jpg
Rest on the flight into Egypt, Diocesan Museum (Naples)
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Aniello Falcone - Roman soldiers in the circus.jpg
Roman soldiers in the circus, Museo del Prado
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Aniello Falcone - Jacob contemplates the bloodied clothes of his son Joseph.jpg
Jacob contemplates the bloodied clothes of his son Joseph, Museo nazionale d'arte medievale e moderna della Basilicata, Matera
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Aniello Falcone - The schoolmistress.jpg
The school teacher, Museo di Capodimonte, Naples
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Aniello Falcone - Simson erschlägt die Philister - 5592 - Bavarian State Painting Collections.jpg
Samson against the Philistines, Alte Pinakothek, Munich
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Aniello Falcone - Schlachtenbild - 2380 - Bavarian State Painting Collections.jpg
Battle image, Alte Pinakothek
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Aniello Falcone - Head of a screaming warrior.jpg
Head of a screaming warrior, drawing, Kunsthalle Bremen
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Ritratto di Masaniello - Aniello Falcone.jpg
Portrait of Masaniello
References
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Additional sources
- Pierluigi Leone De Castris, Aniello Falcone, the Velàzquez of Naples, Elio de Rosa editor, 2022
Sources
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External links
- Jusepe de Ribera, 1591-1652, a full text exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which includes material on Aniello Falcone (see index)
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- ↑ Dizionario universale di geografia, storia e biografia, compiled by Gustavo Strafforello and Emilio Treves, (1878) page 678.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Chisholm 1911.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Painting in Naples: From Caravaggio to Giordano, 1981, p.153
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- 1600 births
- 1665 deaths
- 17th-century Neapolitan people
- 17th-century Italian painters
- Italian male painters
- Italian Baroque painters
- Painters from Naples
- Italian battle painters