Convivio delle Belle Donne, page 19 (verso)
August 1532
Medium
Woodcut
Dimensions
Overall: 7 7/8 x 5 1/2 in. (20 x 14 cm)
Classification
Books|Prints|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1922
Accession Number
22.66.6(37)
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the whimsical world of Renaissance ornamentation with *Convivio delle Belle Donne, page 19 (verso)*, a delicate woodcut created in August 1532 by the Venetian collaborators Nicolò Zoppino and Matteo da Treviso. Produced during the height of Italy's printing boom, this page hails from a book likely celebrating beauty and festivity—its title evoking a "Banquet of Beautiful Women." Measuring just 7 7/8 x 5 1/2 inches, it exemplifies the intimate scale of early printed books, now treasured in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints department. Crafted as a woodcut—a relief ...
About the Artist
Nicolò Zoppino|Matteo da Treviso · 1478–1544
Nicolò Zoppino was an Italian printer and publisher active in Venice and other Italian cities during the first half of the sixteenth century, occupying an important place in the history of early printing and book illustration. Born around 1478, he worked during the golden age of Venetian printing, a period when the city was the dominant center of book production in Europe and publishers competed t...