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The Pianta di Roma, dated 4 June 1665, was engraved after Cruyl's design by the otherwise unknown Roman artisan Giulio Testone, and although its title offers the viewer “elevations of both the best ancient and modern buildings,” its focus is squarely on the new Baroque architecture of Rome, with three-dimensional depictions of the recently completed Piazza di S. Pietro, Piazza di S. Maria del Popolo, Piazza Navona, Il Gesù, and the Propaganda Fide emphasized over the city's ancient ruins. The plan carries at its lower edge an extensive key locating some 340 important structures, and at the upper left putti bear Pope Alexander VII's arms, while at the lower right Cruyl's motto – Labore et Constantia – appears under the emblem of a hand with a compass emerging from a cloud, a motif borrowed directly from the Euclid/Archimedes/Bramante figure in Raphael's School of Athens (1509-11). At the upper right is a banderole dedication to Alexander, which notes that this work is to be followed by a more ambitious undertaking with more detailed depictions of the most notable structures.

Angels and putti. --- Historical geography.