Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00011999Eighteen Views of Rome: The Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore
by Lievin Cruyl
Also known as: Santa Maria Maggiore
Inscriptions
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
Exhibition history
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).
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 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.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Dudley P. Allen Fund
- Accession no.
- 1943.259
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