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| Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi Design for ceiling decoration before 1658 drawing British Museum |
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| Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi Design for wall of garden terrace before 1658 drawing British Museum |
"A parallel movement towards individuation occurs in painting, where the idea of the sketch becomes in the seventeenth century a significant means of individualizing an artist's work. . . . Certainly the sketch ceases to be purely or mainly instrumental, and then its speed and nonchalance, no longer signs of its unimportance, come to mean something else. . . . For paint to be individualized the subject must be obscured. . . . The parts are winning at the expense of the whole, and the primary sensation is deliberate loss of control in the interest of energy. . . . Sketches in architecture mean something different, more unmistakable holiday or licence. . . . Perhaps an agitated surface conveys a transformative vision, a transversal of values in which hideous realities are reversed by a movement more like extravagant wit than spiritual discovery."
– from Reflections on Baroque by Robert Harbison (London: Reaktion Books, 2000)
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| Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi Sketch for wall decoration before 1658 drawing British Museum |
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| Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi Designs for candlestick before 1680 drawing Royal Collection, Windsor |
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| Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi Design for wall decoration before 1658 drawing, watercolor British Museum |
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| Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi Design for wall decoration with angels before 1658 drawing British Museum |
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| Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi View of a town before 1680 drawing Royal Collection, Windsor |
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| Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi Two fountains in a garden before 1658 drawing British Museum |
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| Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi Ruin with window overgrown by tree before 1658 drawing British Museum |
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| Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi Excavation of ancient tomb before 1680 drawing Royal Collection, Windsor |
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| Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi Architectural base supported by nude figures before 1658 drawing British Museum |
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| Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi Study for the top of a catafalque before 1680 drawing British Museum |
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| Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi St Paul with another Saint before 1658 drawing British Museum |
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| Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi Ancient 'Marforio' statue in Rome, from above before 1658 drawing British Museum |