Figures Watching a Display of Fireworks at Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome (recto); A Distant View of the Fireworks Seen from a Villa Garden (verso)
1606–80
Medium
Pen and brown ink (recto); pen and brown ink over leadpoint or graphite (verso)
Dimensions
10 1/8 x 14 5/8in. (25.7 x 37.1cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Thomas Williams, 2000
Accession Number
2000.90a, b
Tags
About the Artist
Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi · 1606–1680
Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi (1606–1680), known as "Il Bolognese," was an Italian painter, draughtsman, and etcher whose career exemplifies the wide influence of the Bolognese school of landscape painting in seventeenth-century Rome. Born in Bologna, Grimaldi trained in the tradition of the Carracci, whose idealized approach to landscape — blending careful observation of nature with classical compo...