GRAMATICA (della GRAMATICA),
ANTIVEDUTO. - Roman painter, of a family originally from Siena. B. ca. 1577, d. in Rome on 13 Jan. 1626. His early works show him to have been a Mannerist oriented toward Barocci; in a more advanced period he appears as a Caravaggesque painter of little grace but considerable vigour.
From his first period there survives the altarpiece of the high altar in the Church of S. Stanislao in Rome, with the Saviour among Polish Saints (ca. 1594); his late period may be illustrated by the Vision of St. Romuald in the church of the Camaldolese near Frascati, his masterpiece (ca. 1619), by the Nativity in the church of S. Giacomo in Augusta in Rome (ca. 1620), and by St. Luke Painting the Virgin in the church of SS. Luca e Martina in Rome (ca. 1624), copied from a painting traditionally attributed to Raffaello, now preserved in the Accademia di S. Luca. Many paintings have recently been attributed to him, sometimes on scanty grounds. The altarpiece in S. Maria della Scala in Rome, painted by A. G. in 1602, is now seen replaced by an eighteenth-century copy.