La Gloria et l'Honore di Ponti Tagliati, E Ponti in Aere, page 11 (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 composed of 2 vertical columns printed upon a grid. Left column is decorated with female composite figure with plant stems for legs that touches vase on left; to the right of the figure are 2 coiling stems with leaves, flowers, and a bird. Right column is decorated with a curving vine of leaves and flowers among which a lion pounces in the center and 2 birds stand on the vine at the sides.

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