'Regole per Imparar a Disegnar i corpi humani ... Giacomo Palma' Libro Primo (title page and 7 plates), bound together with Libro Secondo (title page and 11 plates)

Jacopo Palma the Younger

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This book contains twenty plates of etchings by Jacopo Palma the Younger, first published in Venice in 1608 in collaboration with Odoardo Fialetti. The prints were then published by Giacomo Franco in 1611 and Marcus Sadeler in 1636. This later edition was published by Stefano Scolari in 1659.

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.

Metropolitan Museum of Art