Giardineto novo di punti tagliati et gropposi per exercitio & ornamento delle donne (Venice 1554), page 24 (recto)

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 1 vertical column and 6 circles framing a central image. Vertical column on the left side is decorated with 3 hearts. Top left circle frames a diamond, top right circle frames a bird, center left circle frames an urn, center right circle frames a composite human figure with plant stems for legs, bottom left circle frames a heart, and bottom right circle frames a lion.

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