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Giovanni Andrea Vavassore

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Originally published by Giovanni Andrea Vavassore, Italian, active 16th century, Venice, designed by Florio Vavassore (Giovanni's brother), Italian, active 16th century. Reiussed by Macmillan & Co., British, London and New York. Reissued by Macmillan & Co., British, London and New York. From top to bottom, and left to right: Design composed of 3 horizontal registers. Top register is decorated with linear pattern characterized by a diamond inside a square at its center. Middle register is decorated with alternating snowflake and bird-like patterns within diamonds. Bottom register is decorated with alternating snowflake and diamond (containing 2 smaller diamonds) pattern.

Drawings and Prints

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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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.