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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. <em>The Campidoglio</em> features architecture designed by Michelangelo. The Campidoglio was an important ritual space atop the Capitoline Hill overlooking the Roman Forum. Michelangelo reoriented the piazza to look away from the forum and toward Saint Peter’s Basilica, creating a link between the civic buildings on the piazza and the home of the Catholic Church. He had the piazza paved in a trapezoidal shape and placed the ancient <em>Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius</em> on a newly designed plinth in the middle. With this design, he transformed the Campidoglio from a muddy hill to a central destination and ritual space for centuries to come.
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123004
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Eighteen Views of Rome: The Campidoglio
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123004
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Eighteen Views of Rome: The Campidoglio
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. <em>The Campidoglio</em> features architecture designed by Michelangelo. The Campidoglio was an important ritual space atop the Capitoline Hill overlooking the Roman Forum. Michelangelo reoriented the piazza to look away from the forum and toward Saint Peter’s Basilica, creating a link between the civic buildings on the piazza and the home of the Catholic Church. He had the piazza paved in a trapezoidal shape and placed the ancient <em>Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius</em> on a newly designed plinth in the middle. With this design, he transformed the Campidoglio from a muddy hill to a central destination and ritual space for centuries to come.
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1665
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en
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Q80019602
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12435
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Sheet: 38.6 x 49.5 cm (15 3/16 x 19 1/2 in.)
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Flanders
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1943.264
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pen and brown ink and brush and gray wash over graphite; framing lines in brown ink
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Eighteen Views of Rome: The Campidoglio, 1665. Lievin Cruyl (Flemish, c. 1640-c. 1720). Pen and brown ink and brush and gray wash over graphite; framing lines in brown ink; sheet: 38.6 x 49.5 cm (15 3/16 x 19 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund, 1943.264
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cream(3) laid paper; paper strips mounted to the perimeter of the verso
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DR - Flemish
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signed, lower right, in brown ink: [artist's monogram: LC] RVYL del: Romæ mense Januarij / 1665. ; by artist, upper center, in brown ink: Prospetto del Campidoglio ; by artist, throughout composition, in brown ink: [the letters A-E] ; by artist, lower left, in brown ink: A. Capitolium Romanum. B. Turris eidem superstructa. C. Due Porticus, quarum Una ab Innocentio / X. inchoatæ, ab Alexandro VII perfectæ et completæ. D. Ecclia Minoritarum / Ara Coeli Vocata. ; VERSO, upper left, in brown ink: S45.[partially masked] ; upper left in graphite: n. 545 ; ON STRIPS OF PAPER MOUNTED TO VERSO, lower center, in graphite: A20970 ; lower right, in graphite: E. 10
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Dudley P. Allen Fund
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2026-05-29 06:19:47.786000
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pen and brown ink and brush and gray wash over graphite; framing lines in brown ink
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