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 yellow mantle, with a transparent veil on her head, holds a chalice surmounted by the wafer in her right hand and embraces a cross with her left; bunch of roses and jessamine in lower part of picture, and a scroll. Formerly attributed to Palma Vecchio.—C. & C., N. Italy, ii. 404; Cat. Hermitage, 46.

FAIVRE, TONY, born at Besançon, May 24, 1830. Genre, portrait, and decorative painter, pupil of Picot; visited Italy and (1860-62) Russia. Medal, 1864. Works: Battledore and Shuttlecock (1857); Blind-man's Buff (1864); Idyl (1867); First Hours of the Day (1869); Repose of Venus, Family Reunion in a Park (1870); The Missive, Reader (1873); On a Visit, Teazing, At the Bath (1874); In the Green-house (1875); The Secret (1877); Good Remedy (1878); En Famille (1880); Autumn (1884); Summer (1885).—Bellier de la Chavignerie, i. 530.

FAIVRE-DUFFER, LOUIS STANISLAS, born at Nancy, April 17, 1818. Genre painter, pupil of Orsel; chiefly known by his decorative works. He restored Philibert Delorme's Diana of Poitiers, a ceiling in the Castle of Anet. Studio in Paris. Medals: 3d class, 1851 and 1861. Works: Scenes from lives of Henri II., of Duc de Vendôme, and of Diana of Poitiers (Castle of Anet); Venus Reposing; Pomona; Flora; Cupids; Isabelle and the Vase, Weakness Survives where Strength Succumbs (1879); Mater Dolorosa, A Study (1881); Jacques (1885).

FALCO, JUAN CONCHILLOS, born at Valencia in 1641, died there May 14, 1711. Spanish school; history painter, pupil of Estéban March, after whose death he studied in Madrid. On his return to his native city he maintained a school of design in his own house, and executed many altarpieces for churches in Valencia and Murcia. In his later years he was paralyzed and blind. Works: Two Pictures of Life of St. Eloy, S. Salvador, Madrid; Two Pictures of Miraculous Image of Christ of Beyrout, S. Salvador, Valencia; Conception, Franciscan Nuns, Valencia; Two Altarpieces of Life of St. Benedict, Cistercian Monastery, Valdigna; Pictures of Life of San Louis Beltram, Dominicans, Murcia.—Stirling, 1071.

FALCONE, ANIELLO, called l'Oracolo delle Bataglie, born in Naples in 1600, died there in 1665. Neapolitan school, pupil of Spagnoletto; became famous as a painter of battle scenes, whose subjects were taken from sacred and profane history, and from the poets. During the insurrection of Masaniello, he, with his pupils and partisans, formed the Compagnia della Morte (Band of Death), and massacred many Spaniards in revenge for the death of a relative and scholar killed by their soldiery. On the death of Masaniello, Falcone fled to France and painted in Paris until about 1656, when he was permitted to return to Italy. In the Naples Museum are interesting pictures by him relating to the revolt of Masaniello, and to the plague of 1656. Other works in the Madrid Museum, and a Fight between Turks and Cavalry, in the Louvre. Falcone was the master of Salvator Rosa.—Lanzi, ii. 50; Ch. Blanc, École napolitaine.

FALCONER, ALGERIAN. See Algerian Falconer.

FALCONNETTO, GIOVANNI MARIA, born in Verona in 1458, died in Padua in 1534. Neapolitan school. He was more noted in his time as an architect than as a painter, and it has been said of him that he was overrated as an architect and underrated as a painter. The figures in some of his early frescos are correct neither in action nor in outline, and without style in draperies; but his later pictures, especially the religious allegories executed in 1509-16 for S. Pietro Martire, Verona, are less de