Eighteen Views of Rome: The Piazza Farnese (recto); Cartouche (verso) (1664): Art, History and Details

Eighteen Views of Rome: The Piazza Farnese (recto); Cartouche (verso) (1664) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Lievin Cruyl (Flemish, c. 1640-c. 1720).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

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.

Object facts

• Title: Eighteen Views of Rome: The Piazza Farnese (recto); Cartouche (verso)
• Date: 1664
• Creator attribution: Lievin Cruyl (Flemish, c. 1640-c. 1720)
• Culture: Flanders
• Type: Drawing
• Technique: 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.)
• Collection: DR - Flemish
• Department: Drawings
• Accession number: 1943.257

Collection credit

Dudley P. Allen Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Watercolors by the Masters: Dürer to Cézanne. Exh. Cat. Minneapolis: Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1952.

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