Project for Decoration (Stage Setting)

Anonymous, Italian, 16th century · Italian

Date: 16th century

Medium: Left half: black chalk and brown ink wash; right half: red chalk

Dimensions: 10-7/8 x 8-1/2 in. (27.6 x 21.6 cm)

Classification: Drawings

Themes: Columns, Stairs

Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880

Date range

1500 – 1600

Largest dimension

21.6 cm

Related works in this department

Three Standing Figures (recto); Seated Woman and a Male Hermit in Half-length (verso)

Stefano da Verona (Stefano di Giovanni d'Arbosio di Francia)

1435–38

Portrait of Alain de Coëtivy (1407–1474)

Jean Fouquet

ca. 1451–55

Christ Carrying the Cross

Martin Schongauer

ca. 1475–80

The Censer

Martin Schongauer|Georg Schongauer

1470–91

Bacchanal with a Wine Vat

Andrea Mantegna

Before 1475

Compositional Sketches for the Virgin Adoring the Christ Child, with and without the Infant St. John the Baptist; Diagram of a Perspectival Projection (recto); Slight Doodles (verso)

Leonardo da Vinci

1480–85

More by this artist

Christ on the cross flanked by the Virgin, Saint Brigit and Saint Elisabeth

ca. 1480–1500 (restrike?)

Bust of a Man, His Gaze Directed Toward the Spectator

ca. 1500 (?)

Architecture Study containing Details of One or Several Buildings (possibly part of the street-facing architecture of old Saint Peter's Square in Rome)

1490–1510

Saints Alexander and Theodore flanking Saint Benedict

ca. 1500–50

Saint John the Baptist embracing the Christ Child who sits on the Virgin's knee, she is being crowned by angels, other saints at left

ca. 1500–50

Madonna and a Group of Saints

16th century

Madonna and Child (recto); Madonna and Child (verso)

16th century

Descent of Christ into Limbo

16th century

Contemporary works

Mamluk Carpet

Unknown artist

early 16th century

The Anhalt Medallion Carpet

Unknown artist

probably first half 16th century

Dragon-Handled Jug with Inscription

Data source · View on metmuseum.org