Cain holding a mirror watching his sacrifice engulfed in flames, Adam and Eve seated nearby; in the upper right an angel expelling them from Paradise

Antonio Veneziano

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Marzia Faietti includes this print among those after designs by Amico Aspertini and believes the engraver to be Agostino Veneziano on the basis of Bartsch and De Marolle, and on her finding Agostino's monogram on impressions in the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris (Eb 6a. res.) and in Rome Inv. G.N.S. Inv F.C. 31504). See M. Faietti in M. Faietti and D. Scaglietti, 'Amico Aspertini', Modena 1995, IV.3, pp. 332-3.

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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