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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: Design composed of 6 vertical columns; each column is printed upon a grid. First column is decorated with a vine of grapes and leaves. Second column is decorated with a wavy vine of flowers. Third column is decorated with a curving stem of leaves and other flowers, which emanate from a flower in the center. Fourth column is decorated with a curving branch with leaves that emanates from a flower in the center. Fifth column is decorated with an angular-shaped vine with flowers. Sixth column is decorated with 2 curving vines of leaves that form a heart shape in the center.

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