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| Antiveduto Grammatica Dispute of St Catherine ca. 1610-20 oil on panel Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan |
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| Antiveduto Grammatica St Cecilia flanked by St Valerian and St Tiburtius ca. 1610-20 oil on canvas Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan |
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| Antiveduto Grammatica St Cecilia before 1626 oil on canvas Museo del Prado, Madrid |
"Antiveduto Grammatica owed his curious name to circumstances narrated by the biographer Giovanni Baglione. His father wanted his wife to have their child before they left for Rome, where the family (native of Siena) was planning to settle, but the mother insisted on undertaking the journey, and had to give birth in an inn on the way. Her husband said to her "I foresaw [ho antiveduto] this mess," and so when the future artist was born and brought to Rome, where he was baptised in St. Peter's, he was named Antiveduto. He was trained in Rome with the Perugian painter Giovan Domenico Angelini whose workshop also included the Sienese artist Ventura Salimbeni. Through these associations, the young Antiveduto was able not only to follow Salimbeni but observe the works of Francesco Vanni and Federico Barocci. In his early years Antiveduto headed a busy shop specialising in portraits of famous men, earning the nickname Gran Capocciante. There he hosted his contemporary, Caravaggio, at the beginning of that artist's Roman sojourn between 1592 and 1593. Measuring himself with Caravaggio led Antiveduto to abandon his own neo-Mannerist, Barocci-influenced language and move towards the early naturalism of the great Lombard master, a style rooted in the art of Lombardy and Giorgione, and reflected in the work Caravaggio was creating in Cavalier d'Arpino's shop in 1593-1594. Antiveduto's paintings became intensely naturalistic during the 1610s, with dynamic contrasts of light and dark, also revealing the influence of his friend Orazio Borgianni."
– adapted from biographical notes by Tiziano Zennaro
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| Antiveduto Grammatica St Cecilia with two Angels ca. 1620-25 oil on canvas Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon |
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| Antiveduto Grammatica Salome with the Head of John the Baptist before 1626 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Antiveduto Grammatica St Praxedes and St Prudenziana before 1626 oil on canvas Pinacoteca Vaticana, Rome |
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| Antiveduto Grammatica St Dorothy of Caesarea ca. 1590-1610 oil on canvas Milwaukee Art Museum |
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| Antiveduto Grammatica Mary Magdalen at the Empty Tomb ca. 1620-25 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Antiveduto Grammatica Denial of St Peter before 1626 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Antiveduto Grammatica Madonna and Child with St Anne before 1626 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Antiveduto Grammatica Madonna and Child with St Anne ca. 1614-17 oil on canvas Glasgow Museums |
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| Antiveduto Grammatica Abduction of Europa before 1626 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Antiveduto Grammatica David with the Head of Goliath before 1626 oil on canvas Palazzo della Borsa, Genoa |
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| attributed to Antiveduto Grammatica Card Players ca. 1620 oil on canvas Wellington Collection, Apsley House, London |