GRIMALDI, GIOVANNI FRANCESCO Italian architect, painter and engraver, was born at Bologna. He studied art under the Caracci and under Albani. In 1626 he went to Rome and was appointed architect to Pope Paul V., and was also patronized by succeeding popes. In 1649 he was invited to France by Cardinal Mazarin, and for about two years was em ployed on the decoration of the Palais Mazarin (now the Bibli otheque Nationale) and of other buildings. Returning to Rome in 1651 he was made president of the Academy of St. Luke; and in that city he died on Nov. 28, 1680. Paintings by Grimaldi are preserved in the Quirinal and Vatican palaces, in the church of S. Martino a'Monti and in the Borghese and Doria Galleries.