Cœnotaphiorum (12)

Hans Vredeman de Vries

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Funerary monument, shaped like a tomb and on one side placed against a wall. The monument is characterized by a portico of Ionic pillars surrounding the body of the tomb. On top of the tomb the effigy of a sleeping man (gisant) in harnas is placed. Above his head a statue of a soldier is visible which supports a strapwork panel with the inscription 'GENUS INSUPERABILE BELLO'. Below the image a Latin inscription is placed made up out of four lines, devided over two columns.

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