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| Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi Landscape with Tobias and the Angel ca. 1650 oil on canvas Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid |
"Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi was an Italian painter, printmaker and architect. Little is known of his early years, although he may have trained in his native Bologna, probably in the circle of the Carracci. In 1626 he moved to Rome and became associated with the group of artists working around Pietro da Cortona. Grimaldi was a member of the Accademia di San Luca, which he entered in 1635. . . . Between 1647 and 1649 Grimaldi was involved in the construction of the Villa Pamphilij in Rome, working as assistant architect, garden designer and painter to Alessandro Algardi. Grimaldi also worked outside Rome, and between 1649 and 1651 he is documented in Paris working on various commissions, including the decoration of Cardinal Mazarin's palace (now the Bibliothèque Nationale) in collaboration with Giovanni Francesco Romanelli, the Palais du Louvre, and the Jesuit church. On his return to Rome, Grimaldi worked under the supervision of Pietro da Cortona, executing part of the decoration of the Quirinale Palace for Popes Alessandro VII and Clement IX. . . . His last years were devoted to fresco painting, particularly landscapes surrounded by decorative cartouches with foliage, painted for the leading residences in Rome."
– from curator's notes at Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza
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| Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi (landscape) and Alessandro Algardi (figures) Landscape with Holy Family (Rest on the Flight into Egypt) ca. 1650 drawing Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
"Two contemporary Bolognese draftsmen worked at different times on this unique drawing. Sculptor Alessandro Algardi added the figures after painter Francesco Grimaldi had created the landscape. . . . The artists' styles are distinctive. Algardi drew his playful grouping with a more delicate, graceful, even fragile line than Grimaldi's bold squiggles and hatching, which are especially evident in the dynamic, dominant tree. These two artists worked together on architectural commissions, yet only one other similar sheet exists, an architectural drawing in which Algardi corrected and added to Grimaldi's work."
– from curator's notes at the Getty Museum
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| Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi Landscape with Tobias and the Angel before 1680 oil on copper Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow |
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| Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi Landscape with Stream in Foreground before 1680 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi Study of Trees before 1680 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi Landscape with Classical Buildings and Figures before 1680 oil on canvas National Trust, Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire |
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| Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi Landscape with Two Figures in Foreground before 1680 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi Landscape before 1680 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi River Landscape with Fishermen before 1680 oil on canvas National Trust, Hinton Ampner, Hampshire |
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| Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi Group of Figures conversing in a Landscape before 1680 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi Two Youths by a Wall before 1658 drawing British Museum |
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| Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi Group of Trees ca. 1675-80 drawing Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi Landscape with high exterior walls of a garden before 1658 drawing British Museum |
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| Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi Classical Italian Landscape ca. 1675-80 oil on canvas Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery, Lancashire |