Francesco Fracanzano San Gregorio de Armenia es arrojado al pozo 1635, San Gregorio Armenita Nápoles

Francesco Fracanzano Retrato de Dionysius Cato

Francesco Fracanzano (1612–1656) was an Italian painter who participated in the

Masaniello Masaniello (, ; an abbreviation of Tommaso Aniello; 29 June 1620 – 16 July 1647) was an Italian fisherman who became leader of the 1647 revolt against the rule of Habsburg Spain in the Kingdom of Naples. Name and place of birth Until recent ...

rebellion. Francanzano was the brother of

Cesare Fracanzano Cesare Fracanzano (1605-1651), a Neapolitan painter who flourished in the 17th century, was a pupil of Spagnoletto. Born in Bisceglie, in Apulia by Alessandro, a nobleman originally from Verona and a mannerist painter. His pictorial style was ...

, a pupil of

Spagnoletto Jusepe de Ribera (1591 – 1652) was a painter and printmaker, who along with Francisco de Zurbarán, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, and the singular Diego Velázquez, are regarded as the major artists of Spanish Baroque painting. Referring to ...

and the master of

Salvator Rosa Salvator Rosa (1615 –1673) is best known today as an Italian Baroque painter, whose romanticized landscapes and history paintings, often set in dark and untamed nature, exerted considerable influence from the 17th century into the early 19th ...

, whose sister he had married. His married life was an unhappy one, as by the instigation of his wife he committed crimes for which he suffered death at Naples in 1656.

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Jusepe de Ribera, 1591-1652
', a full text exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which includes material on Francesco Frazanzano (see index) 1612 births 1656 deaths 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Painters from Naples People from Monopoli {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub