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Farelli, Giacomo
(b Rome, ?1624; d Naples, 26 June 1701). Italian painter. After a literary education in Rome, he moved to Naples to study painting in the workshop of Andrea Vaccaro. Nevetheless, his early work was in the classical style of Guido Reni and Domenichino and he occasionally collaborated with Francesco di Maria, the main exponent of this style in Naples. His first documented works are a St Gennaro and a Massacre of the Innocents (both 1651; untraced) executed for Cesare Zattara. The large altarpiece depicting Christ and the Virgin Appearing to St Bridget (1655–6; Naples, S Brigida), executed in rivalry with Luca Giordano (who was completing at the same time and for the same church the altarpiece with the Miracle of St Nicholas) showed that Farelli had by then created an independent style. In 1661 he painted a St John the Evangelist for the church of S Giovanni at Sulmona, near L’Aquila in the Abruzzi, and in 1664 the frescoes with the Life of the Virgin in the sacristy of the Cappella del Tesoro in Naples Cathedral (finished 1673). He then worked until 1671 on the frescoes (untraced) in the Palazzo dei Duchi Acquaviva in Atri (Teramo) and in the church of S Filippo at L’Aquila.
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