FILIPPO D'ANGELI, CALLED FILIPPO NAPOLETANO (NAPLES OR ROME C.1587-1629 ROME)

Roman by birth, Filippo D'Angeli gained his sobriquet 'Napoletano' following his early training in the city of Naples. This landscape shows the influence of the Northern painter, Godfried Wals, with whom he seems to have studied prior to his return to Rome in 1614. Filippo Napoletano was attracted by the fine detail and brilliant light that enlivened landscapes produced by Dutch and French artists working in Italy. Echoes of Claude Lorrain, Cornelis Poelenburgh, Bartholomeus Breenbergh and Paul Bril can all be seen in his paintings, and the figures in his landscapes often recall those of the printmaker Jacques Callot, with whom he became well acquainted in Florence.