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Domenico da Sera

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published by Domenico da Sera Lyons. From top to bottom, and left to right: Design composed of 4 horizontal registers that are printed upon a grid. First register is decorated with an alternating pattern of a bird and a tree. Second register is decorated with a curving vine of flowers characterized by diamond shapes. Third register is decorated in the center with a curving vine to which leaves and flowers are attached above and below. Fourth register is decorated in the center with a curving vine to which leaves are attached above and below it.

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