Landschap met de boetvaardige Maria Magdalena

About this artwork

Een weids landschap met op de voorgrond rechts de boetvaardige heilige Maria Magdalena onder een boom.

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...