View of Motrone Castle (before its demolition around 1692)
Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi
1606–80
Medium
Pen and brown ink over leadpoint
Dimensions
6 9/16 x 10 3/4 in. (16.7 x 27.3 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, the Elisha Whittelsey Fund 1949
Accession Number
49.63.271
Tags
CastlesBridgesMountains
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...