Esemplario di lavori, page 5 (verso)
August 1529
Medium
Woodcut (pages inlaid, modern vellum binding)
Dimensions
9 5/16 x 7 1/4 x 15/16 in. (23.7 x 18.4 x 2.4 cm)
Classification
Books|Prints|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1921
Accession Number
21.98(9)
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the intricate world of Renaissance design with page 5 (verso) from *Esemplario di lavori*, a pattern book crafted by the Venetian printer Nicolò Zoppino in August 1529. This woodcut print, housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints department, exemplifies the explosion of printed ornament books during Italy's High Renaissance. Zoppino, known for his prolific output of decorative manuals, created these "esemplari" (model books) to inspire artisans across Europe, offering repeatable motifs for crafts like embroidery, lace-making, and metalwork. The page features el...
About the Artist
Nicolò Zoppino · 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...