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GIOVANNI FRANCESCO GRIMALDI (1606-168o)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 598 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FRANCESCO See also:GRIMALDI (1606-168o)  , See also:Italian architect and painter, named Il Bolognese from the See also:place of his See also:birth, was a relative of the See also:Caracci See also:family, under whom it is presumed he studied first . He was afterwards a See also:pupil of See also:Albani . He went to See also:Rome, and was appointed architect to See also:Pope See also:Paul V., and was also patronized by succeeding popes . Towards 1648 he was invited to See also:France by See also:Cardinal See also:Mazarin, and for about two years was employed in buildings for that See also:minister and for See also:Louis XIV., and in See also:fresco-See also:painting in the Louvre . His See also:colour was strong, somewhat excessive in the use of See also:green; his See also:touch See also:light . He painted See also:history, portraits and landscapes—the last with predilection, especially in his advanced years—and executed engravings and etchings from his own landscapes and from those of See also:Titian and the Caracci . Returning to Rome, he was made See also:president of the See also:Academy of St See also:Luke; and in that See also:city he died on the 28th of See also:November 1680, in high repute not only for his See also:artistic skill but for his upright and charitable deeds . His son Alessandro assisted him both in painting and in See also:engraving . Paintings by See also:Grimaldi are preserved in the Quirinal and Vatican palaces, and in the See also:church of S . Martino a'Monti; there is also a See also:series of his landscapes in the See also:Colonna See also:Gallery .

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