Ghirlanda: Di sei vaghi fiori scielti da piu famosi Giardini d'Italia, page 22 (recto)

Ghirlanda: Di sei vaghi fiori scielti da piu famosi Giardini d'Italia, page 22 (recto)

Pietro Paulo Tozzi

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Designed by Pietro Paulo Tozzi, published by Libraria del Giesu, Padua. Calligraphy by Antonello Bertozzi and Sebastian Zanella, scribes of Padua. Design is composed of a central rectangle upon which a variation of the alphabet is printed and one line of calligraphic text. At the beginning and end of all the text are twisting linear motifs. Surrounding this middle section on the top, left, and right side are rounded triangular motifs ornamented with different foliage patterns; along that bottom side is a border divided into squares that are ornamented with a floral pattern.

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.