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Giovanni Antonio Tagliente

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Written by Giovanni Antonio Tagliente, Italian, Venice ca. 1465-1527 Venice, published by Giovanantonio e i fratelli da Sabbio Venice. From top to bottom, and left to right: Design composed of 2 borders at top and bottom in between which are 3 vertical columns. Top border is divided into 2 halves: left half is illustrated with 3-petaled flower (outer petals decorated with diamonds and middle petal decorated with oval) within a zigzag line, and right half is illustrated with 3-petaled flower (more natural-looking) within a zigzag line. Vertical columns are decorated with diverse floral Moresque patterns. Bottom border is decorated with Moresque pattern characterized by circles and other abstract shapes.

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