Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00011515About 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
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.
Exhibition history
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).
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.a
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