Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00011311Eighteen Views of Rome: The Piazza Farnese (recto); Cartouche (verso)
by Lievin Cruyl
Also known as: Piazza Farnese
About the Artwork
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.
Inscriptions
recto: 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. verso: ON STRIPS OF PAPER MOUNTED TO PERIMETER, lower center, in graphite: A20971 ; lower right, in graphite: E. 1
Exhibition history
Watercolors by the Masters: Dürer to Cézanne. Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN (organizer) (May 1-June 15, 1952). Aspects of Drawing. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 10-April 2, 1961). Queen Christina of Sweden. Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden (organizer) (June 29-October 16, 1966). Views of Rome. American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy (organizer) (October 13-November 20, 1989). Concept, Dogma and Feeling: Italian Drawings 1550-1650. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 20, 1991). Master/Apprentice: Imitation and Inspiration in the Renaissance. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 13, 2019-February 23, 2020).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Lievin Cruyl (Flemish, c. 1640-c. 1720)
- Date
- 1664
- 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
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 38.7 x 49 cm (15 1/4 x 19 5/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Dudley P. Allen Fund
- Accession no.
- 1943.257
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