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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

10,707 works

Pen and wash study of a crowd of struggling figures beneath a colonnaded building, marked with a squaring grid.

Study for a Massacre of the Innocents

Domenico Passignano, 1580-1636

Pen and ink architectural drawing of an entrance portal with plan views above and paired pilasters with ornate capitals below

Entrance Portal: Plan and Elevation, Each Pier Consisting of Two Pilasters

Antonio Visentini, 1688-1782

Pen and ink drawing of a monument with a standing Madonna and Child, two putti, and a tiered base in an arched niche.

Design for a Wall Tomb or Monument (Recto); Smaller Variant Version with Half Length Madonna & Child on Crescent Moon…

Giovanni Francesco Penni, 1496-1528

Design for an Urn with Garland of Vegetables and Fruit and Medallion with Profile of a Caesar

Giovanni Francesco Penni, 1496-1528

Pen and brown ink drawing of three architectural ornament friezes with rococo scrollwork, putti, and sea creatures.

Drawing for Engraving in Raccolta di Vari Schizzi, Venice, after Angelo Rosis

Antonio Visentini, ca. 1747

Pen and wash elevation of a colonnade of six Ionic columns on a rusticated stone base with a dentil cornice.

Ionic Colonnade (6 Columns) on Rusticated Base

Antonio Visentini, 1688-1782

Pen and ink architectural drawing of a barrel-vaulted chapel with Corinthian columns, coffered ceiling and two putti above.

Design for an Elaborate Barrel-Vaulted Chapel

Baldassarre Tommaso Peruzzi, 1481-1536

Pen and brown ink drawing of ornamental military trophies with helmets, armor, griffins, scrolls and a shield.

Designs for Ornamental Military Trophies (recto and verso)

Enea Vico, ca. 1540-70

Watercolor album page with furniture designs: a canopy bed, a table with winged sphinx supports, a floor plan, and a scroll-a

Designs for Furniture

Pierre Antoine Bellangé, ca. 1800-40

Red chalk vignette of a huntress with spear, hunting dog, stag head, and two putti within a rococo cartouche.

Vignette Illustrating Torquato Tasso's "Gerusalemme Liberata" (X:78)

Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, 1745

Pencil drawing of a nude male figure with raised bound arm, looking upward beside a tree trunk and drapery.

Nude Figure

Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, 1720

Brown ink drawing in a circle of a dragon head, a long-beaked bird, and a grimacing human mask.

Two Beasts and a Human Mask within a Circle

Gaetano Piccini, 1727

Pen and wash architectural design showing Gothic arches, oval medallions and putti in a ceiling decoration.

Design for the Ceiling Decoration in Vasari's House in Arezzo

Giorgio Vasari, 1531-74

Human Mask Looking to the Left within a Circle

Gaetano Piccini, 1727

Grotesque Winged and Bearded Head Looking to the Left within a Circle

Gaetano Piccini, 1727

Putto's Head Looking to the Right with a Shell Beneath the Chin within a Circle

Gaetano Piccini, 1727

Two Grotesque Heads Facing One Another within a Circle

Gaetano Piccini, 1727

Two Grotesque Heads Facing One Another and Touching Tongues Within a Circle

Gaetano Piccini, 1727

Grotesque Head With a Large Ear and an Open Mouth Looking to the Right Within a Circle

Gaetano Piccini, 1727

Small Grotesque Head Looking to the Left Within a Circle

Gaetano Piccini, 1727

Ink drawing of a grotesque head with an open toothed mouth turned left, inside a thin circular frame.

Large Grotesque Head With an Open Mouth Looking to the Left Within a Frame

Gaetano Piccini, 1727

Large Grotesque Head Being Strangled by its Own Hair

Gaetano Piccini, 1727

Grotesque Head With a Bulging Forehead Looking to the Right Within a Circle

Gaetano Piccini, 1727

Grotesque Head With a Large Eyebrow Looking to the Left Within a Circle

Gaetano Piccini, 1727

Watercolor design of a blue and gilt ewer with a female mask handle and scrolled leaf-form spout, on a ruled sheet.

Design for a Gilt Bronze Ewer

George Heinrich von Kirn, ca. 1770-90

Watercolor of figures in a Roman tavern courtyard with musicians, benches, and painted sun and rooster motifs on the walls.

Interior of a Roman Inn

Bartolomeo Pinelli, 1817

Pen and wash drawing of a papal coat of arms with tiara, Rococo scrollwork, and handwritten heraldic color annotations.

Coat of Arms of Clement XIII (Rezzonico)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1758-69

Ink and wash elevation drawing of a classical building facade with columns, entrance steps and a military trophy in the pedim

Design for the Façade of an Arsenal

C. Pompetti, 1837

Pen drawing of an ornate lidded silver tankard with a lion finial and engraved soldier figures on its body.

Preparatory Drawing for an Illustration of a Seventeenth-Century Dutch Tankard from the Demidov Collection

C. Prosdocimi, 1879

Architectural section drawing of a long hall with two tiers of pink columns, arched windows, niche statues and oval medallion

Longitudinal Section of Great Throne Room (Saint George's Hall), Winter Palace, Saint Petersburg

Giacomo Quarenghi, ca. 1776