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See also:GRIMALDI, GIOVANNI See also:FRANCESCO (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 (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
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
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
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 Grimaldi are preserved in the Quirinal and Vatican palaces, and in the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of S. Martino a'Monti; there is also a See also:series of his landscapes in the See also:Colonna See also:Gallery.
End of Article: GRIMALDI, GIOVANNI FRANCESCO (1606-168o)
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