Aniello Falcone
Aniello Falcone (Naples, 1600 or 1607 - Naples, 1665), is a painter Neapolitan Baroque, contemporary of Diego Velázquez with which it is compared for the expressive power of his works.
Biography
Mainly painter of battles, it also painted religious scenes.Carlo Coppola and Salvator Rosa was of its pupils like Micco Spadaro, in its Neapolitan workshop, between tendencies Greek, Latin and Spanish, and which belonged to the “ Compagnia della Morte ”, created to avenge death for a friend, with the improbable objective to kill all the Spaniards.
In this company, formed part Masaniello, with results passed then in the history. When the Reign of Naples, after hardly two years of revolution, returned under the domination of the Spaniards and the Compagnia della Morte dissolved, Aniello Falcone disappeared and its workshop replaced by that from Luca Giordano.
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