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

Original Source

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
Medium: pen, brown, ink, brush, gray, wash, over, stylus, graphite, framing, lines
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
Exhibitions: Views of Rome, Concept, Dogma and Feeling: Italian Drawings 1550-1650
Rights Statement: CC0