Corona delle Nobili et Virtuose Donne: Libro I-IV, page 27 (recto)

Corona delle Nobili et Virtuose Donne: Libro I-IV, page 27 (recto)

Cesare Vecellio

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published by Cesare Vecellio, Italian, Pieve di Cadore 1521-1601 Venice, Venice. From top to bottom, and left to right: Design composed of 2 horizontal registers. Top register is decorated with 3 semi-ellipse motifs: left motif is ornamented with roosters and floral elements, middle motif is ornamented with Orpheus serenading various animals, and right motif is ornamented with 2 birds flanking a vase with a flower. Bottom register is decorated in the center with a vase that is flanked by coiling vines on the sides.

Drawings and Prints

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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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.