Eighteen Views of Rome: The Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore
1664
Lievin Cruyl
Lievin Cruyl (Flemish, c. 1640-c. 1720)
Drawings
Eighteen Views of Rome: The Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, 1664. Lievin Cruyl (Flemish, c. 1640-c. 1720). Pen and brown ink and brush and gray wash over stylus and graphite; framing lines in brown ink; sheet: 38.4 x 49.4 cm (15 1/8 x 19 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 1943.259
- Maker/Artist
- Cruyl, Lieven
- Classification
- Drawing
- Formatted Medium
- pen and brown ink and brush and gray wash over stylus and graphite; framing lines in brown ink
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 38.4 x 49.4 cm (15 1/8 x 19 7/16 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: signed, lower left, in brown ink: [artist's monogram: LC] RVYL del: Romæ / mense Dec: 1664. ; by artist, upper center, in brown ink: Prospetto della Chiesa de S. Maria Maggiore. ; by artist, throughout composition, in brown ink: [the letters A-M] ; by artist, lower left, in brown ink: A Cupula et Sacellum in honorem Deiparæ a Paulo V ornatissimè a Fundamentis constructium. / B Cupula cum substructo Sacello elegantissimo a Xysto V. extructa. . D. Turris Eccliæ, sive / Basilicæ S. Mariæ Maioris. E Columna marmorea ex antiqui Pacis Templi Ruinis ab / eodem Paulo V huc transportata, es in B. V. Mariæ honorem erecta. F Obelistus a / Xÿsto V. erectus. G. Monasterium S. Antonij. H. Palatia et hosti amplissimi ; lower right, in graphite: [illegible] ; VERSO, upper left, in brown ink: [illegible]5 ; ON STRIPS OF PAPER MOUNTED TO VERSO, lower center, in graphite: A. 20973 ; lower right, in graphite: E .5
- Departments
- Drawings
- Accession Number
- 1943.259
- Credit Line
- Dudley P. Allen Fund
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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