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Eighteen Views of Rome: The Piazza Farnese (recto); Cartouche (verso)

Eighteen Views of Rome: The Piazza Farnese (recto); Cartouche (verso)

1664
(Flemish, c. 1640-c. 1720)
Flanders
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
Sheet: 38.7 x 49 cm (15 1/4 x 19 5/16 in.)
Dudley P. Allen Fund 1943.257
Location: not on view

Description

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.
  • Watercolors by the Masters: Dürer to Cézanne. Exh. Cat. Minneapolis: Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1952. Mentioned: no. 19
  • Master/Apprentice: Imitation and Inspiration in the Renaissance. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 13, 2019-February 23, 2020).
    Concept, Dogma and Feeling: Italian Drawings 1550-1650. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 20, 1991).
    Views of Rome. American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy (organizer) (October 13-November 20, 1989).
    Queen Christina of Sweden. Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden (organizer) (June 29-October 16, 1966).
    Aspects of Drawing. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 10-April 2, 1961).
    Watercolors by the Masters: Dürer to Cézanne. Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN (organizer) (May 1-June 15, 1952).
    Watercolors by the Masters: Dürer to Cézanne. Minneapolis Institute of Arts (May 1 - June 15, 1952).
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