Lucidario di Recami, page 4 (verso)

Iseppo Foresto

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Designed by Iseppo Foresto, published by Jeronimo Calepino, 1564. From top to bottom, and left to right: First half of a double-paged design composed of 3 sections. First section occupies the majority of the top half and is decorated with an interlace pattern surrounded by foliage. Second section occupies the right corner of the top half; it is decorated with a 4-petaled flower at the center of an interlace motif. Third section occupies the bottom half and is decorated with 2 columns of curving vines of leaves that culminate in a flower at the top (left side).

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