Cœnotaphiorum (25)

Hans Vredeman de Vries

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Two designs for funeral monuments to be placed onto a wall. The monument on the left is characterized by a large painting of the Annunciation in the central compartment and a smaller depiction of God holding up the body of Christ (Gnadenstuhl). The monument on the right shows effigies of four kneeling men in front of a painting of the Last Judgement. a Latin inscription is added on a small panel below. Below the image as a whole a Latin inscription is added, consisting of eight lines divided 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