Plan of the City of Rome

Plan of the City of Rome

Antonio Tempesta

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Plan or aerial view of the city of Rome, taken from the north-west. The map shows Rome in its late sixteenth-century condition. The map was first printed in 1593. This edition with changes dates to 1645.

Drawings and Prints

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The Department’s vast collection of works on paper comprises approximately 21,000 drawings, 1.2 million prints, and 12,000 illustrated books created in Europe and the Americas from about 1400 to the present day. Since its foundation in 1916, the Department has been committed to collecting a wide range of works on paper, which includes both pieces that are incredibly rare and lauded for their aesthetic appeal, as well as material that is more popular, functional, and ephemeral. The broad scope of the department’s collecting encourages questions of connoisseurship as well as those pertaining to function and context, and demonstrates the vital role that prints, drawings, and illustrated books have played throughout history.