Scene from Il Triompho della Pieta

Scene from Il Triompho della Pieta by Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi|Giovanni Battista Galestruzzi

Medium

Etching

Dimensions

Plate: 12 1/4 × 15 3/8 in. (31.1 × 39.1 cm) Sheet: 12 3/8 × 15 11/16 in. (31.5 × 39.8 cm)

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926

Accession Number

26.70.4(232)

About the Artist

Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi|Giovanni Battista Galestruzzi · 16061680

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...

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