German critic. He worked as a diplomat in Paris from 1749. Influenced by the Encyclopedists, he favoured the use of the Italian style in French operas (especially those of Rameau); in the Querelle des Bouffons of the 1750s he rejected all French music in favour of Rousseau, writing the satirical tract Le petit proph??te de Boehmischbroda (1753) and other works. He was a friend to the visiting Mozart family, 1763-4 and 1778.   Related Paintings of baron grimm :. | The Granduca Madonna | Allegory of Vice and Virtue | Kaiserin Eugenie am Strand von Trouville | Portrait of Philip V of Spain as a child | Madonna and Child mmmnh |
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Matteo Di Giovanni
Italian Early Renaissance Painter, ca.1430-1495
Willem Bodeman
painted Italianate landscape in 1847
Narcisse Berchere
French, 1819-1891