Research Project
Ornamental Prints Collection
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The MAK Library and Works on Paper Collection possesses 17 424 ornamental prints and templates from the 15th to 18th centuries. These were systematically collated into a databank over 15 years ago. A self-contained inventory, the collection enjoys international monopoly status and is to this day an indispensable resource for research into the history of ornamentation. To ensure optimum continuing support for such work, a research project is planned to scrutinize, correct, and supplement these data by incorporating the latest research in the field. The aim is to rekindle awareness of ornamental prints as an important aspect of design history past and present.
Project Manager: Kathrin Pokorny-Nagel, Head, MAK Library and Works on Paper Collection/Archive
Project Editor: Peter Fuhring, Freelance Scientist
Media
Two grotesque figures fighting each other, leaf from the "Neuw Grotteßken Buch".
Christoph Jamnitzer, Nuremberg, 1610
Etching
Height: 15.5 cm, width: 19.8 cm
KI 1-362-15
Vase with two handles, sheet 2 from the series of vases after Polidoro da Caravaggio entitled "Vasa a Polydoro Caravagino Pictore Antiquitatisq imitatore prestantiss inventa etc.", after Polidoro da Caravaggio's vases on the facade of the Palazzo Milesi in Rome
Design: Polidoro Caldara, Roma / Rome, 16th century
Engraver: Cherubino Alberti, Roma
Copper engraving
Height: 24 cm, width: 16.1 cm
KI 3456
Cartouche of cartilage, sheet 5 from the series "Veelderhande Nieuwe Compartemente", engraved and published by Jacob Lutma
Veelderhande Nieuwe Compartemente
Janus (the Younger) Lutma, Amsterdam, 1653
Etching
Height: 28.7 cm, width: 19.8 cm
KI 1-980-7
Albrecht Dürer
Mary with the guenon
Germany, 16th century
Copperplate engraving
height: 19 cm, width: 12.5 cm
KI 3809