Giardineto novo di punti tagliati et gropposi per exercitio & ornamento delle donne (Venice 1554), page 5 (verso)

Matteo Pagano

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published by Matteo Pagano, Italian, 1515-1588, bound by Lloyd, Wallis & Lloyd, British, active London after 1821. From top to bottom, and left to right: Design composed of 3 vertical columns printed upon a grid. First column is narrow and is decorated with alternating pattern of black diamonds with linear motif in between. Second column is decorated with alternating pattern of diamonds and squares, each formed by black triangles. Third column is decorated with alternating pattern of 'X's and diamonds, all formed by black triangles. Fourth column is divided into 2 sections: upper section is decorated with diamond pattern and bottom section is decorated with 9-petaled flower pattern.

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