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68 FAENZA— FELTRO. enza. Qiambattista da Faenza is sup- posed to have been his son : he d. 1604. {Crespi, Lanzi.) FALCONE, Angelo, or Aioello, b. at Naples, in 1600, d. 1665. Neapolitan School. A pupil of Spagnoletto. He was a great painter of battle-pieces, and was called at Naples the Oracolo delle Battaglie; he founded a life-school there. He and his scholars took part in the insurrection of Masaniello against the Spaniards, Salvator Bosa was one of the number ; they formed themselyes into a company under the name of « Compagnia delia Morte;" but after the death of Masaniello Salvator and Falcone fled to Bome, where the latter continued his battle-painting, and made the acquaintance of Bourguignon, called Borgognone, in Italy, who exchanged pieces with Falcone. From Bome he went to Paris, whence Colbert procured him permission to return to Naples. One of his battle-pieces is in the Louvre. He painted Masaniello's portrait. He engraved a few plates. (JDominici.) FABINATO, Paolo, b, at Verona, 1522, d. 1606. Venetian School. A pupil of Niccolo Giolfino, he studied also the works of Titian and of Gior- gione at Venice, and apparently those of Giulio Bomano at Mantua. His Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes, painted in his old age, 1604, a com- position consisting of many figures, in part portraits of his own family, and in part ideal heads, is considered his mas- ter-piece ; it is conspicuous for its fine groups of women and children; and is bold and vigorous in drawing, and Ve- netian in colour. Farinato was also sculptor and architect; and he engraved a few plates. He died on the same day with his wife. His son Orazio was a painter. Works, Verona, Sta. Maria in Or- gano, the Angel Michael expelling Lucifer; the Murder of the Innocents : the Cappucini, the Deposition from the Cross : San Giorgio, the Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes: San Giovanni in Fonte, the Baptism of Christ. Berlin, Museum, Presentation in the Temple. {Ridolfi,) FASOLO, Gio. Antonio, 6. at Vi- cenza, 1528, d» 1572. Venetian SchooL Studied under Battista Zelotti, and after- wards under Paolo Veronese ; he imi- tated the latter master with considerable success. Some of his principal works are from ancient Boman History. He was killed by a fall from a scaffolding. Works, Vicenza, San Bocco, the Pool of Bethesda; the Church of the Servi, the Adoration of the Magi {Ridolfi.) FATTOBE, Tl. [Penni.] FEI, Alessandbo, called Del Bar- biere, b, in Florence, 1543. Tuscan School. Studied under Bidolfo del Ghirlandajo, and Tommaso di San Friano. He executed some large his- torical works in fresco, into which he in- troduced architecture and arabesques; and he painted also small cabinet pictures. In Sta. Croce, at Florence, is the Flagellation of Christ, by Fei. FELTBO, MoBTO da, d. at Zara, about 1519. He studied in Bome, and, says Vasari, revived the art of painting grotesques or arabesques, in imitation of the ancient decorations of that class, in the grottoes, and other ruins about Bome. He may have revived the more grotesque style of the cinquecenio ara- besques, such as it was practised by Giulio Bomano, and others of that time ; but the purer arabesque was common both with the sculptors and painters of the north of Italy towards the close of the fifteenth century. The Lombardi of Venice, Baccio Pintelli, and Bra- mante,were great masters of arabesque, a style fully developed about 1480, whoUy independent of the labours of Morto, but he may have carried the taste from the north to the south, and I given a great impulse to the style. He