Landscape with Castle
Medium
Pen and black ink, with brush and brown wash, with traces of graphite, on cream laid down on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
12.2 × 27.5 cm (4 13/16 × 10 7/8 in.)
Classification
wash
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
147724
Art Historical Context
Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi known as "Il Bnese" (1606–1680), was a prominent Italian Baroque artist from Bologna who spent much of his career in, working alongside masters like Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Pietro da Cort. Specializing in landscapes, architecture, and frescoes,imaldi captured the grandeur of the Roman countryside in his works. *Landscape with Castle*, an undated drawing (n.d.), exemplifies his skill in evoking vast, atmospheric scenes on a intimate scale—measuring just 12.2 × 27.5 cm. Executed in pen and black ink with brush and brown wash, accented by faint graphite traces on cre...
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...