Antiveduto grammatica biography of albert

Italian painter

Antiveduto Grammatica (December 1569 – April 1626) was a proto-Baroque Italian painter, active near Rome.

Antiveduto grammatica biography of albert

Grammatica was born in Rome, where he was baptised in December 1569.^[1] According to Giovanni Baglione the artist was given the name Antiveduto ("foreseen") because his father had a premonition that he would soon be born during a journey between his native Siena and Rome.

It was in Rome that Antiveduto was raised and based his career. His apprenticeship with the Perugian artist Giovanni Domenico Angelini (Giandomenico Perugino)^[2] introduced him to small-scale work, mostly on copper.

He gained the nickname "gran Capocciante" because he specialised in painting heads of famous men. A decade later, in 1591, Antiveduto set up as an independent artist.

Grammatica's earliest surviving public commission, an old-fashioned configuration depicting Christ the Saviour with St.