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| Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi Landscape with river before 1680 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi Landing with boats before 1680 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
"Grimaldi's ceiling designs and landscapes, especially the engravings after the landscapes, etched both by himself and by his son, Alessandro Grimaldi (1630-63) perpetuate his contemporary fame. Working in the tradition of landscape painting established by the Bolognese Annibale Carracci and Domenichino, as well as noting the influence of the Northern landscapists who worked in Rome, Grimaldi developed an ideal and serene landscape, drawn with a rapid line and with volume and shadow depicted through the use of washes and parallel hatching. He designed for the theater and was in charge of the special effects for an opera performed in the Palazzo Barberini in honor of Queen Christina of Sweden, who also owned several of his drawings."
– from biographical notes supplied by the British Museum. The Grimaldi drawings grouped here from Teylers Museum in Haarlem are at least partially derived from that well-known collection of Queen Christina.
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| Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi River with bathers before 1680 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi River with bathers before 1680 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi Landscape with figures and bridge before 1680 drawing Teylers Museum Haarlem |
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| Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi Figures in landscape ca. 1652-62 drawing Rijksmuseum |
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| Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi Trees on riverbank before 1680 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi Landscape with river before 1680 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi River landscape with mules before 1680 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi River landscape before 1680 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi House built into city walls before 1680 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi Figures watching fireworks display at Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome before 1680 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi Landscape with bridge leading to castle before 1658 drawing British Museum |
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| Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi Christ tempted by Satan in the wilderness before 1658 drawing British Museum |