Scene from Il Triompho della Pieta
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 · 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...