Landscape with a Pedimented Temple and Two Figures
17th century
Medium
Pen and brown ink
Dimensions
Sheet: 12 3/8 x 8 7/16 in. (31.5 x 21.5 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Alain and Marie-Christine van den Broek d'Obrenan Gift, 2009
Accession Number
2009.139
Tags
Art Historical Context
Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi, as "Il Bolognese," was a 17th-century Italian, painter, and architect trained under Domenichino in Bologna before settling in Rome. This delicate and brown ink drawing,Landscape with a Pediment Temple and Two Figures*, his skill in capturing classical landscapes infused with antiquity. Created during the Baroque era, when artists romanticized ancient ruins amid lush scenery, the work measures 12 3/8 x 8 7/16 inches and entered the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection in 2009 through a generous gift. The composition centers on a majestic pedimented temple, likel...
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...