Essempio di recammi, page 12 (recto)
Medium
Woodcut
Dimensions
Overall: 7 13/16 x 6 3/16 x 3/8 in. (19.8 x 15.7 x 1 cm)
Classification
Books|Prints|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1935
Accession Number
35.75.3(23)
Tags
Art Historical Context
This woodcut comes fromEssempio di recammi*, a 1530 pattern book printed in Venice by Giovanni Antonio Tagliente in collaboration with the da Sabio brothers. The volume served as a practical guide for embroidery, offering needleworkers reusable designs that could be transferred onto fabric. Page 12 (recto) features delicate motifs of birds and insects, rendered with the crisp lines typical of early-sixteenth-century woodcut technique. During the Renaissance, printed pattern books like Tagliente’s helped spread ornamental ideas across Italy and beyond, allowing skilled amateurs and professiona...
About the Artist
Giovanni Antonio di Nicolini da Sabio e i fratelli|Giovanni Antonio Tagliente (Italian|Italian) · 1522 |1465 –1545 |1528
Italian, active Venice, ca. 1522–1545|Italian, Venice ca. 1465–1528 Venice