Prophets and Saints in Glory, after Bernardino Poccetti

Santi Pacini

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This composition was drawn by Sante Pacini after Bernardino Poccetti's Paradise, a cycle frescoed around 1608 in the chapel of the Palazzo Gerini in Florence. Formerly owned by the French collector and connoisseur Pierre-Jean Mariette, the sheet was listed as a work by Poccetti in the sale catalogue of Mariette's collection (1775), under the number 67 ( "Huit sujets d'une grande composition, peints et exécutés à Florence par cet auteur, dans les Monastères de l'Annonciade et autres, dessinés d'après les tableaux, à la pierre noire, par Pacini.") Other drawings belonging to this group are in the Département des arts graphiques, Musée du Louvre, Paris.

Drawings and Prints

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Department’s vast collection of works on paper comprises approximately 21,000 drawings, 1.2 million prints, and 12,000 illustrated books created in Europe and the Americas from about 1400 to the present day. Since its foundation in 1916, the Department has been committed to collecting a wide range of works on paper, which includes both pieces that are incredibly rare and lauded for their aesthetic appeal, as well as material that is more popular, functional, and ephemeral. The broad scope of the department’s collecting encourages questions of connoisseurship as well as those pertaining to function and context, and demonstrates the vital role that prints, drawings, and illustrated books have played throughout history.

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