Eighteen Views of Rome: The Piazza Farnese (recto)

1664

Lievin Cruyl

Lievin Cruyl (Flemish, c. 1640-c. 1720)

Drawings

Eighteen Views of Rome: The Piazza Farnese (recto), 1664. Lievin Cruyl (Flemish, c. 1640-c. 1720). Pen and brown ink and brush and gray and blue wash over graphite; squared in graphite (two figures in the foreground); framing lines in brown ink; sheet: 38.7 x 49 cm (15 1/4 x 19 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 1943.257.a Flemish artist Lieven Cruyl made a number of drawings of emblematic vistas of Rome for the Roman publisher Giovanni Battista de Rossi, of which ten were published as etchings in 1666. The Piazza Farnese features architecture designed by Michelangelo, who completed the Palazzo Farnese after the death of its original designer, Antonio da Sangallo, in 1546. His main contribution was the third story and the significantly protruding cornice at the top of the facade, which dramatically hangs over the front of the building, like sculpture.

Original Source

Maker/Artist: Cruyl, Lieven
Classification: Drawing
Formatted Medium: pen and brown ink and brush and gray and blue wash over graphite; squared in graphite (two figures in the foreground); framing lines in brown ink
Medium: pen, brown, ink, brush, gray, blue, wash, over, graphite, squared, figures, foreground, framing, lines
Dimensions: Sheet: 38.7 x 49 cm (15 1/4 x 19 5/16 in.)
Inscribed: Inscription: signed, lower right, in brown ink: [artist's monogram: LC] inv. et delin. / 1664. ; by artist, upper center, in brown ink: Prospetto della Piazza Farnesia. ; by artist, througout composition, in brown ink: [the letters A-D] ; by artist, lower left, in brown ink: A. Palatium Farnesiorum. B. Duo Fontes aream anteriorem mundantes. / C. Oratorium S. Brigitte Nationis Sweciæ / D. Palatium Em: Cardinalis Antonij Barberini.
Departments: Drawings
Accession Number: 1943.257.a
Credit Line: Dudley P. Allen Fund
Exhibitions: Queen Christina of Sweden, Views of Rome
Rights Statement: CC0