All FALCONE, Aniello's oil paintings
ID Image  Oil Pantings, Sorted from A to Z     Other Information
31009 Bataille d'Allemands contre les Turcs Bataille d'Allemands contre les Turcs mk70 Toile H.1.36 L.1.68 Paris,Musee du Louvre
6633 The Anchorite djs The Anchorite djs c. 1650 Oil on canvas, 102 x 53 cm Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome
6634 The Concert fghd The Concert fghd Oil on canvas, 109 x 127 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid
FALCONE, Aniello
Italian painter, Naples school (b. 1607, Napoli, d. 1656, Napoli). Italian painter and draughtsman. He trained briefly with Jusepe de Ribera, the Caravaggesque Spanish painter. He quickly won fame as a specialist in scenes of battle, and his contemporaries nicknamed him the 'oracle' of this genre. Falcone created the 'battle scene without a hero' (Saxl): he showed the battle as a brutal, confused struggle between anonymous troops, without heroes, without defeats and without particular historical incidents. The Battle between Turks and Christians (1621; Paris, Louvre; see fig.) is one of the earliest. The frieze-like composition is elaborately structured, yet the picture is rich in intensely naturalistic, vividly coloured details of armour and weapons and precisely observed expressions of anger and pain. The famous dealer and collector Gaspar Roomer and other Neapolitan collectors commissioned many battle pictures from him, and these were soon introduced throughout Europe. He was especially favoured by Ferrante Spinelli, Prince of Tarsia, who gave Falcone a residence in his palace after 1651. . Related Artists to : | Popova, Liubov | Louis Welden Hawkins | Richard Norris Brooke | Jerome B Thompson | HEEM, Cornelis de |