Cœnotaphiorum (27)

Hans Vredeman de Vries

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Architectural wall tomb consisting of two vertical tiers. The lower tier is characterized by a deep niche in the middle in which a tomb is placed. The upper tier shows the effigies of a kneeling man and woman on either side of a small altar. Behind them their patron saints have been placed, Hieronymus on the left and a female saint on the right. Combined with the Dutch inscription referring to Cock and his wife, this may perhaps be an indication that it is in fact their prospective funerary monument. Behind them is a painting of the second coming of Christ. Below the image 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