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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

10,707 works

Grey wash drawing of a theatrical stage set with columns, a coffered dome, statues, and a receding arched corridor.

Design for a Stage Set

Pietro Righini, 1688-1742

Brown ink drawing of an ornate altar frame design with a blank central panel, flanking statues, and a winged figure above.

Design for a Reredos or Frame and Setting for an Altar Painting

Pomarancio, 1552-1626

Vertical pilaster drawing with winged putti, a torch, a small temple model and reeds on a tan ground.

Two Pilaster with White Putti on Tan Ground

Giovanni Mauro della Rovere, 1595-1640

Brown wash drawing of a rustic kitchen interior with stone arches, barrels, a wooden table, and a staircase.

Design for a Stage Set Showing Interior of Rustic Kitchen ("Cucina Rustica")

Lorenzo Sacchetti, 1759-1829

Red chalk drawing of an elderly man gesturing to a kneeling woman beside a standing figure, with dark wash accents.

Abraham Dismissing Hagar

Andrea Sacchi, 1599-1661

Pen and brown wash drawing of an ornate candlestick design with a tall candle, a figure medallion and a scrolled base.

Design for a Candlestick

Ottavio Strada, 1510-63

Pen and brown wash drawing of a tiered ornamental stand with reclining nudes, garlands, and a winged putto on top.

Design for an Inkstand

Ottavio Strada, ca. 1540-60

Brown ink drawing of an ornate tazza and a salt cellar with reclining figures, scroll handles and clawed feet.

Design for a Salt Cellar and Tazza

Ottavio Strada, n.d.

Pen and wash drawing of a funerary monument with a skeleton, scythe, hourglass, skulls and mourning winged figures.

Design for a Funerary Monument

Francesco Salviati, 1510-63

Brown ink drawing of an octagonal ceiling design with a central chariot scene and oval medallions of nude figures.

Design for an Octagonal Ceiling (or Dish?)

Ottavio Strada, 1510-63

Ink and wash drawing of a classical door frame with arched pediment, rosette pilasters and stepped moulded surround.

Drawing for a Door Frame

Lorenzo Sarti, 18th century

Pen and ink drawing of a grinning satyr's head with curly hair, pointed ears, and swirling horns on paper.

Satyr's Head

Adamo Scultori, 1566-80

Pen and watercolor architectural drawing of a gallery with elevations, a wall section, and a floor plan with statue niches.

Plan "della nuova Galleria"

Giovanni Battista Silvestri, 1796-1873

Architectural elevations of a ballroom in pen and watercolor, with blue drapery, a statue, and an arched vault section.

Elevation "della nuova Galleria"

Giovanni Battista Silvestri, 1796-1873

Pen and grey wash drawing of classical architecture with seated women, putti, and clouded figures above a sunburst.

Drawing for a Frontispiece

Mauro Soderini, 1704-39

Pen and wash drawing of a winged angel in green drapery above a mass of falling figures among clouds.

Study for the Fall of Simon Maqus, S. Paolo Maggiare, Naples

Francesco Solimena, 1690

Brown wash drawing of an oval ceiling design with angels, clouds, and a nativity-like group of figures below.

Design for an Oval Ceiling with Four New Testament Scenes

Bartolommeo Tarsia, 1711-65

Pen and wash drawing of an ornate rococo cartouche with an empty oval center and scrolling acanthus ornament.

Design for Cartouche

Fortunato Tesi, 18th century

Brown ink and wash design sketch of a half cartouche with scrolling foliage and a carved mask at upper right.

Design for Half Cartouche with Mask

Fortunato Tesi, 18th century

Grey wash drawing of an ornate painted ceiling design with curved bands, scrollwork, and putti holding garlands.

One Quarter Design for a Painted Ceiling

Mauro Antonio Tesi, 1730-66

Brown ink and wash drawing of a seated female figure in clouds, a putto, a draped figure, and a boar on a title page.

Title Page

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1727-1804

Pen and ink drawing of a crowded interior where a sick man lies on a bed surrounded by onlookers and columns.

Saint Anthony of Padua Healing a Sick Man (recto); Partial Figural Studies Based on the Composition on the Recto (verso)

Tiberio Titi, 1590-1600

Watercolor design for a rococo painted ceiling with a gilded central medallion, scrolls, musical instruments and floral urns.

Design for a Painted Ceiling

Giovanni Antonio Torricelli, 1716-81

Pen and ink design drawing of an ornate candlestick or crucifix base with an urn, scrolls, winged putti and lion feet.

Design for Candlestick or for a Crucifix Base

Perino del Vaga, ca. 1540-47

Pen and ink design drawing of an ornate candlestick with winged figures and a medallion scene at its base.

Design of a Candlestick with Winged Figures at Base Surrounding Scenic Medallion

Perino del Vaga, 1521-47

Pen and ink design sheet with grotesque figures, urns, scrolling foliage, birds and drapery for a wall decoration.

Design for a Grotesque Wall Decoration

Perino del Vaga, 1501-47

Pen and ink design sketch of a decorated wall with garlands, urns, a bird, medallions, and grotesque panels.

Design for Grotesque Wall Decoration

Perino del Vaga, early 16th century

Pen and ink drawing of an ornate palace interior with arched vaults, classical columns, and decorative scrollwork.

Design for a Stage Set: Highly Decorated Interior of a Palace

Giuseppe Valeriani, 1740-70

Pen drawing of ornamental scrollwork with a central putto and two figures riding dolphins over waves below.

Designs for Ornamental Motifs with Figures, Real and Imaginary Animals, and Coats of Arms of the Medici Grand Dukes

Stefano Della Bella, n.d.

Pen drawing of a tomb design with an oval portrait bust, scrolling ornament, skull mask and stepped pedestal base.

Design for a Tomb of Epitaph (recto); An Unfinished Variation of a Tomb or Epitaph (verso)

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725