Filippo Falciatore (1718-1768)

• Was an Itaian painter.
• He was born and died in Naples.  
• Falciatore trained under Paolo de Matteis and soon afterwards Domenico Antonio Vaccaro.
• Works dating from the early 1730s including frescoes for the palaces of the Dukes of Monteleone and Brunasso and the vault of S. Giacomo degli Spagnoli.
• In 1741 Falciatore executed a fresco of the Story of Esther and portraits of Carmelite saints for the sacristy of the Carmine Maggiore.
• A number of small genre paintings depicting bourgeois daily life in Naples, street scenes, local customs and other narrative events date from the 1740s and are often acerbic in content.
• His later works of the mid 1750s show a move towards a more classical style, which emanating from Rome, had begun to pervade Neapolitan art.
• His final years are only documented by two surviving paintings: the Assault on a Carriage at the Foro Carolino of 1764 and the late Baptism of Christ of 1768.
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