ANTIVEDUTO, GRAMMATICA (of Grammatica), - Roman painter; from a family originally from Siena. B. ca. 1571, d. in Rome on 13 Jan. 1626. His early works show him as a Mannerist leaning toward Barocci; in a more advanced period he appears as a Caravaggist of little grace but considerable vigour.
Of his early period there survives the altarpiece in the Church of S. Stanislao in Rome with the Saviour between Polish Saints (ca. 1594); his late period may be illustrated by the Vision of S. Romualdo 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 and Martina in Rome (ca. 1624), copied from a painting traditionally attributed to Raphael, now preserved in the Accademia di S. Luca. Many paintings have recently been attributed to him, sometimes with little foundation. The altarpiece in S. Maria della Scala in Rome, painted by A. G. in 1602, is now seen replaced by an 18th-century copy.