![Fontana in Piazza Navona [Fontana del Moro], from "La Fontane di Roma nelle Piazze e Luoghi Publici (...)"](https://cdn.unlockedmuseums.com/items/6641b84442ee7ee368c33d2f/1-700w.jpeg)
Fontana in Piazza Navona [Fontana del Moro], from "La Fontane di Roma nelle Piazze e Luoghi Publici (...)"
Giovanni Battista Falda
An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art
View of the Fountain of the Moor on Piazza Navona in Rome. The fountain was originally designed by Giacomo della Porta, but was restored by Bernini 1673. The latter also added the sculpture of the Moor to which the fountain owes his name.
Drawings and Prints
An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art
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.