Italian Gothic Era Painter , b. 1289/1309, Bologna, d. 1359/69, Bologna  Related Paintings of VITALE DA BOLOGNA :. | Retrato de Luis de Gongora realizado en su primera visita a Madrid por Diego Velazquez. | Ovidiu in exil, ulei pe carton | Four Breton Women | le train d' artillerie | St. Victor Hill |
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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.
Charles Cooper
British Painter , 1803-1877
Carl Jutz
German, 1838-1916