Eighteen views of Rome: The Piazza Barberini

Cruyl, Lieven (ca. 1640-ca. 1720)


Item type:
drawing
Date of creation:
1665
Height:
38.3 cm  (15 1/16 in.)
Width:
49.7 cm  (19 9/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
pen and brown ink and brush and gray wash with graphite; framing lines in brown ink and graphite (along bottom edge); sketch unrelated to main composition in graphite (upper right)

    Item location

  • Cleveland Museum of Art
    [Museum inv. no.: 1943.265.a]

Description

One of ten figures on a horse-drawn cart in the piazza plays a chitarrone (theorbo) or archlute. A woman on the left of the cart plays a similar instrument.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Theorbo [3473]
Archlute [3316]

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 1

Notes

One of four that include musical aspects from a set of 21 known drawings, of which this museum holds 18.

RIdIM record id

2127