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Eighteen Views of Rome: The Collegio di Propaganda Fide (recto)

1665

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Lievin Cruyl

(Flemish, c. 1640-c. 1720)

Flanders, 17th century

Pen and brown ink and brush and gray wash over graphite; framing lines in brown ink

Support: Cream(3) laid paper; paper strips mounted to the perimeter of the verso

Sheet: 38.9 x 48.9 cm (15 5/16 x 19 1/4 in.)

Dudley P. Allen Fund 1943.262.a

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

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 Collegio di Propaganda Fide. ; by artist, throughout composition, in brown ink: [the letters A-H] ; by artist, lower left, in brown ink: A. Collegium Propagandæ Fidei ab Urbano VIII inchoatum, ab Innocentio X auctum, / ab ALEXAN[D]RO VII decoratum. B. Introitus et Frontispicium Eccliæ ab Alex: VII / operâ Equitis Frañci Borrommo edificatum. C. Ecclia S. Andreæ dellé Fratte vulgo / nominata. D. Cupula , et E Turris eiusdem Eccliæ ex inventione prefati Equitis. / F. Templum Mon~rij S. Josephi Capo le Case vulgo vocatum. G. Pars Fori Hispanici. H. Templum SS. Trinitiatis Montium.

Exhibition history

Siena, Italy. Organizer: Comune di Siena/venue: Il Palazzo Publico located in the Museo Civico (9/15/00 - 1/10/01) "Alessandro VII Chigi (1599-1667): il papa senese di Roma moderna" p 263, no. 161.

Views of Rome. American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy (organizer) (October 13-November 20, 1989).

Alessandro VII Chigi (1599-1667): il papa senese di Roma moderna. Museo Civico, Siena (in Palazzo Publico) (September 15-December 15, 2000).

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