Eighteen Views of Rome: The Campidoglio
1665
- Medium
- pen and brown ink and brush and gray wash over graphite; framing lines in brown ink
- Dimensions
- 38.6 × 49.5 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-215053
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 Campidoglio 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 …
Provenance
Allen Fund, 1943.264
Registry history
- 1665 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — drawings
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