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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

17,350 works

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

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

Large Grotesque Head Being Strangled by its Own Hair

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

Saint Lawrence, left hand resting on a grill, from "Piccoli Santi" (Small Saints)

Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1500-27

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Drawing for a Frontispiece

Mauro Soderini, 1704-39

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

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

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 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 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

Pen and ink drawing of a female head in an ornate scrolled helmet topped by a winged sphinx and plumes.

Design for a Helmet with a Sphinx presented in 3/4 View

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Design for a Helmet with an Elaborate Plume

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Pen and ink drawing of an ornate two-handled vase with scrolled handles, oval bands, and a pedestal foot on a mounted sheet.

Outline of Design for a Vase with Two Handles

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Brown ink drawing of an ornate two-handled vase with scrolled handles, decorated cartouche, and footed base.

Outline of Design for a Two-Handled Vase

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Pen and blue wash drawing of a lidded ewer with scrolled handles and bull head masks on a footed base.

Design for a Ewer with Bull Heads under the Handles and Spout

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Pen and wash drawing of an ornate epitaph design with a pediment, urns, a medallion of two figures, and a blank tablet.

Design for an Epitaph

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725