Landschap met kruipende man
1616 - 1680
Medium
etching
Dimensions
191
About this artwork
collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Art Historical Context
**Landschap met Kruipende Man (Landscape with Crawling Man)** Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi, known as *Il Bolognese*, was a prominent 17th-century Italian artist renowned for his delicate landscape etchings and Baroque frescoes in Rome. Active during the lifetimes indicated (1616–1680), Grimaldi drew inspiration from the Roman countryside, blending classical ruins with lush natural scenes in a style that bridged Bolognese naturalism and the grandeur of the High Baroque. This etching, measuring 191 mm in diameter, exemplifies his mastery of the printmaking technique, where acid etches intricate...
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...