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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

17,350 works

Pen and ink drawing with wash of an ornate wall design with a door, flower urn, blue ribbons, scrollwork and a figure.

Left Half of a Wall Decoration for a Chapel

Francesco Ferrari, ca. 1690

Grey-toned ornamental design drawing with white highlights showing a wall monument, balustrade, angels holding garlands and s

Ornamental Design for a Wall Monument Surmounted by a Balustrade with Human Figures, Angels Holding Garlands and Drap…

Gregorio de' Ferrari, 1647-1726

Brown ink and wash drawing of robed mourners around a figure on a tomb in a vaulted church interior.

Raymond Diocrès Speaking During His Funeral (from the Life of Saint Bruno of Cologne)

Daniele Crespi, 1628-29

Pen and wash drawing of seated allegorical female figures on an ornate sculptural architectural design with columns and arche

Studies for a Sculpture with Figures of Prudence, Industry and Economy Supported by Slaves and an Oval Plaque with Ca…

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Pen and wash drawing of two stacked designs for a bed alcove with swagged drapery and ornate scrolled pediments.

Designs for Bed Alcoves (recto); Studies for a figure of St. John the Baptist and a Bed Alcove (verso)

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1652-1725

Pen and wash drawing with two kneeling draped figures above and two ornamental altar front designs below.

Studies for a Kneeling Figure of Christ and Altar Fronts

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1652-1725

Pen and wash drawing of a female face in a scrolled helmet topped by a winged dragon, on aged paper.

Design for a Helmet with a Dragon Presented in Frontal View

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Pen drawing of a fountain with an oval basin, tritons, dolphins, grotesque heads and a figure of Neptune above.

Design for a Fountain with Sea Horses and Triton Base, Basin, Dolphins and Tritons, Three Grotesque heads and Neptune

Battista Franco Veneziano, ca. 1550

Pen and ink drawing of an ornate cartouche flanked by a bearded man, a laurel-crowned youth in armor, and four putti.

Drawing of Cartouche with Bearded Man Left, Young man crowned with Laurels Right, and Four Putti

Battista Franco Veneziano

Gray wash drawing of a seated ruler on a throne with courtiers, a fire at right, in an ornate Rococo frame.

A Scene of Judgment

Johann Melchior Füssli, ca. 1730

Head of a Bearded, Young Man in Profile Facing Right

Bronzino, 1545-55

The Archangel Gabriel Kneeling to the Right; Small Study of Head at Lower Left

Jacopo da Empoli, late 16th century

Grey wash drawing of crumbling Roman arches, columns and a pedimented doorway overgrown with shrubs.

View of Ancient Roman Ruins, an Arch and a Triangular-Pedimented Doorway

Filippo Mochi, 18th century

Watercolor design for a painted wall with a seated female figure, wheat sheaves, pheasants in a landscape, and floral borders

Design for Painted Wall Decoration for a Bakery

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, second half 19th century

Engraving of a seated bare-chested man holding a laurel branch, with two draped women, a tree, and a classical building behin

The Man with a Laurel Branch

Agostino Veneziano, ca. 1514-36

Pope Paul III in a Skullcap

Agostino Veneziano, ca. 1514-36

Painted design for a gallery ceiling with pink and tan scrollwork, a central ornamental panel, and floral garlands on green.

Design for Gallery Ceiling, Hôtel Cottier

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, ca. 1879

Watercolor design of a tiered interior wall bay with columns, a heraldic doorway, an angel, and a robed figure.

Design for a Bay of a Side Wall, Château de Béhourt

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, second half 19th century

Watercolor design for a church altar with pink marble columns, a painted Virgin surrounded by cherubs, and a gilded tabernacl

Design for Altar

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, second half 19th century

Watercolor elevation of an altar design with pink marble columns, a central door, and a painted angel above the entablature.

Side View of Design for Altar

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, second half 19th century

Ink and watercolor architectural design of a coffered arch framing a classical niche and garden view above a balustrade.

Design for Stable Arches, Hôtel Candamo

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, ca. 1873

Watercolor design of a Gothic pointed-arch stained glass window with ornamental tracery and a heraldic shield above.

Design for Elevation of Window, Saint Clotilde

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, second half 19th century

Watercolor of a Gothic church interior with a robed altar boy in the foreground and ribbed vaulted ceilings above.

View of Interior with Figures, Saint Clotilde

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, second half 19th century

Watercolor design of a Gothic Revival altar with a crucifix, starry blue vault, radiating light and a dove above.

Design for Altar, Saint Clotilde

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, second half 19th century

Watercolor design of a painted coffered ceiling with pink, blue and brown panels and gilded arabesque ornament.

Design for Dining Room, Hôtel de Doctor Cranchi

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1872

Vertical sheet of painted decorative border designs with scrollwork, fleur-de-lis and zigzag motifs in blue, pink and gold.

Design for Ceiling at Fontainebleau

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1850-1910

Watercolor design of a decorated room wall with a blank gilt frame, teal and violet walls, and gilded cornice ornament.

Design for Elevation of the Duchess of Newcastle's Bedroom, Hôtel Hope

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1867

Engraved print of an ornate acanthus-leaf capital with a Latin inscription reading Rome in Sant'Agnese fuori le Mura.

Capital decorated with Acanthus Leaves from the Church of Sant' Agnese fuori le mura, from "Speculum Romanae Magnific…

Agostino Veneziano, ca. 1514-36

Engraving of a classical altar with columns, a niche holding a standing nude statue, and a carved pediment above.

The Altar of Eros, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Agostino Veneziano, ca. 1514-36

Engraving of a classical niche with a small nude statue of Jupiter between fluted columns beneath an arched pediment.

The Altar of Jupiter in the Oldest Temple on the Capitol, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Agostino Veneziano, ca. 1514-36