Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

Decoration for a Spandrel in a Cove, 16th century

Pen and brown ink, over black chalk

8.3 × 11.4 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-587393

Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

Decorative Frieze with Putti Playing on a Swing, 16th century

Pen and brown ink, over traces of black chalk

7.6 × 25.5 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-581092

Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

Decorative Letter "I" with Putti (Embroidery Design?), 16th century

Pen and brown ink, watercolor, on vellum

10 × 8 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-527765

Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

Descent From the Cross, 16th century

Black chalk

28.6 × 21 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-489188

Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

Descent of Christ into Limbo, 16th century

Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk on cream paper

14.5 × 15.5 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-511068

Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

Design for a Cartouche (recto); Fragments of the Plan of a Building (Church?) (verso), 16th century

Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over leadpoint

21.1 × 16.4 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-535230

Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

Design for a Ceiling: Male Figure with a Trident and Another Figure in a Horse Drawn Chariot, 16th century

Brush and brown wash, highlighted with white, on brown washed paper

20.6 × 29.9 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-604561

Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

Design for a Decorative Vessel, 16th century

Pen and light brown ink, brush and light brown wash, highlighted with white gouache

21.5 × 10.5 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-543429

Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

Design for a Façade with Sgraffito Decorations, 16th century

Pen and brown ink, over black chalk

30.8 × 18.3 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-590471

Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

Design for a Fountain with River Gods and Nymphs, 16th century

Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk; compass work and ruling in black chalk, mounted on a secondary paper support

56.5 × 34 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-552714

Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

Design for a Frame with Armorial Trophies, the Medici Coat of Arms and a Second Coat of Arms, possibly of the Alberighi Family (?), 16th century

Pen and ink, watercolor

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-584343

Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

Design for a Lectern, 16th century

Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash

24.5 × 14.2 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-518019

Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

Design for a Lunette, 16th century

Pen and brown ink, over black chalk, brown wash

9.8 × 25.9 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-564736

Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

Design for a Mirror with the Sigil of Three Mountains (Family Crest of the Monti?), 16th century

Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, ruler and compass work

26.5 × 17.5 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-543303

Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

Design for a Rattle and Whistle (recto); Crude Sketches of an Equine Animal and a Figure in Exotic Costume (verso), 16th century

Pen and brown ink, with a plumbline in leadpoint; red chalk (unrelated sketches)

20.8 × 9.7 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-545862

Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

Design for a Saltcellar with Putti, 16th century

Red chalk

20.7 × 31.2 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-490192

Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

Design for a Tomb with Female Figures, Putti and Mythological Creatures, 16th century

Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, over leadpoint

21.7 × 18.1 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-514015

Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

Design for a Tomb with Herms and a Niche with a Bust Portrait, 16th century

Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash

21.9 × 14.4 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-539327

Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

Design for a Triumphal Arch with Three Arches, 16th century

Pen and brown, brush and brown wash; over ruled stylus lines

27.5 × 37.1 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-541589

Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

Design for a Wall with Two Windows, 16th century

Pen and brown ink

12.7 × 8.9 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-548925

Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

Design for an Altar with a Celestial Subject Above, 16th century

Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over leadpoint

40.5 × 22.5 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-537342

Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

Design for Pediments with the Resurrected Christ surmounted by a Crucifix, 16th century

Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, traces of leadpoint

26.5 × 9 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-543431

Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

Design for Window, 16th century

Pen and brown ink

12.7 × 9.5 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-501695

Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

Design of Antique Pitcher, 16th century

Pen and brown ink

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-501237

Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

Design of Antique-Style Ornament ("Grotteschi"), 16th century

Pen and brown ink, brush with gray and brown wash

33 × 22.5 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-528550

Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

Design with Medici Coat of Arms and Harpy (Embroidery Design?), 16th century

Pen and brown ink, watercolor, on vellum

5 × 15.8 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-527774

Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

Designs for Nine Helmets (recto); Designs for Seven Helmets (verso), 16th century

Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash

26.8 × 20.5 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-536930

Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

Details of Groining, 16th century

Pen and brown ink

17.8 × 16.5 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-502224

Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

Dido and Aeneas (recto); Three Figures Traced in Reverse from Recto and a Study of a Seated Man (verso), 16th century

Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, squared for transfer (recto); graphite, pen, and brown ink (verso)

15.8 × 22.1 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-610614

Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

Draped Figure, 16th century

Pen and brown ink

21.6 × 12.1 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-488767

Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

Drawing of Bas-Relief, 16th century

Pen and brown ink on tracing paper

13.7 × 20.6 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-572469

Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

Elevation and Section, 16th century

Pen and brown ink, washed

24.8 × 17.8 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-501706

Anonymous, Italian?, 16th century

Elevation of a wall with partial pilasters, reliefs, and niche figures, 16th century

Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over traces of leadpoint (?) underdrawing

23 × 22.9 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-592628

Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

Entombment, 16th century

Pen and brown ink

17.8 × 20.8 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-501710

Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

Entombment, 16th century

Etching

27.5 × 20.8 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-348782

Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

Europa, 16th century

Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash

18.7 × 23.8 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-514484

Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

Façade (for Stage Setting), 16th century

Pen and brown ink, brush and red wash

34.6 × 25.4 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-533733

Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

Façade (for Stage Setting), 16th century

Pen and brown ink, washed with red

24.1 × 7 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-533734

Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

Façade (for Stage Setting), 16th century

Pen and brown ink, washed with red

35.6 × 7 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-533732

Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

Female Figure, 16th century

Pen and brown ink

18.1 × 13 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-501718

Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

Figure Holding a Spear and a Helmet, 16th century

Red chalk, brown wash

32.4 × 16.8 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-558608

Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

Figure in Roman Dress (Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus) and Study of Two Helmets (recto); Sketches and Latin Inscription (verso), 16th century

Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, white gouache, over black chalk, squared in black chalk and brown ink (recto); pen and brown ink (verso)

26.5 × 12.5 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-552648

Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

Figure of a Prophet, 16th century

Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash over black chalk; glued to secondary paper support; trace of later (?) framing outline in pen and black ink along upper edge

27.9 × 17.1 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-538835

Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

Five women in a boat, holding palm leaves, 16th century

Etching

9.8 × 15.2 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-348095

Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

Flora (recto); Mountainous Landscape with Buildings (verso), 16th century

Pen and brown ink

17.9 × 13.3 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-505778

Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

Four Studies of Consoles and a Mask, 16th century

Pen and ink

27.9 × 21.6 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-515919

Anonymous, Italian?, 16th century

Fragment of a Scheme with Grotesque Decorations (recto); Fragment of an Ornament Design after the Antique (verso), 16th century

Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over charcoal

8.5 × 9.9 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-592159

Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

Fragment of Strapwork Design (tracing?), 16th century

Pen and brown ink, brush and gray-brown ink, over black chalk

7.4 × 11.4 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-603806