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Aniello Falcone (Naples, 1600 or 1607 – Naples, 1665) was an Italian painter and artist, son of merchants, contemporary of Diego Velázquez. In his Neapolitan workshop, Aniello Falcone welcomed young people interested in art and taught them the secrets and techniques of painting, always treating them with almost paternal kindness. Read the full biography

Aniello Falcone (Naples, 1600 or 1607 – Naples, 1665) was an Italian painter and artist, son of merchants, contemporary of Diego Velázquez. In his Neapolitan workshop, Aniello Falcone welcomed young people interested in art and taught them the secrets and techniques of painting, always treating them with almost paternal kindness. Artists such as Micco Spadaro, Salvator Rosa, Luca Forte and others were trained in his workshop, in a Naples placed under Spanish domination. Many of his students joined the "Company of Death", created by Falcone himself to avenge a friend who died at the hands of a Spaniard, with the unlikely aim of killing all the Spaniards in Naples. Masaniello was also part of this Company, with the results later going down in history. When the Kingdom of Naples, after almost a year of revolution, returned under Spanish rule and the Company of Death dissolved, Aniello Falcone disappeared from circulation and his workshop was replaced by that of Luca Giordano.