La Gloria et l'Honore di Ponti Tagliati, E Ponti in Aere, page 8 (verso)

Matteo Pagano

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published by Matteo Pagano, Italian, 1515-1588, Venice. From top to bottom, and left to right: Design is composed of 2 vertical columns printed upon a grid. Left column is wider and is decorated with a central female composite figure whose lower half is formed of plant stems that curve outward and connect to 2 coiling vines with leaves and grapes; the central image is framed on the top and bottom by other floral and foliage elements. Right column is narrower and is decorated with a curving vine with an alternating pattern of 3-sided black and white dotted leaves.

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