Landschap met twee ruiters die een fort binnengaan
Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi
1616 - 1680
Medium
etching
Dimensions
190
About this artwork
diameter 190 mm
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...