Ornamental

Agostino Musi (Agostino Veneziano) after Sebastiano Serlio
Corinthian Entablature
1528
engraving
British Museum

Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi)
Design for Metalwork Dish
ca. 1535-45
drawing
British Museum

Master G.A. with the Caltrop (Italian printmaker)
Capital with Fruit and Grotesque Head
ca. 1535-37
engraving
British Museum

Monogrammist P.S. (Italian printmaker)
Corinthian Capital from the Colosseum, Rome
1537
engraving
British Museum

Monogrammist S.E. (Netherlandish printmaker)
Design for Ewer with Cherub Heads and Dancers
ca. 1542-46
engraving
(School of Fontainebleau)
British Museum

attributed to Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi)
Panel of Grotesque Decoration
ca. 1545
watercolor and gouache on paper
British Museum

Lelio Orsi
Design for Fan Handle
before 1587
drawing
British Museum

Monogrammist P.R.K. (Netherlandish printmaker)
Design for Pendant
1609
engraving
British Museum

Domenico Passignano after Giovanni da Udine
Panels of Ornament
(after frescoes in the Vatican Loggia)
before 1636
drawing
British Museum

François Perrier
Design for Memorial Tablet
before 1649
drawing
British Museum

Filippo Passarini
Designs for Altar Candlesticks and Crosses
1698
etching
British Museum

Gilles-Marie Oppenord
Design for Supraporte
1720
etching
Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna

Jean Mondon
Design for Boiserie Mirror Frame
1749
etching and engraving
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Frederick Marschall
Royal Escutcheon - Château de Fontainebleau
ca. 1885
watercolor on paper
(after a Renaissance original)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Hilde Reindl
Textile Design
ca. 1928
watercolor on paper
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Tommi Parzinger
Design for Reflector Floor-Lamps
ca. 1950
gouache and graphite on paper
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Mendell & Oberer (Munich)
Plastics & Design - Die Neue Sammlung, Munich
1998
screenprint (poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Sonnet

As, in a dusky and tempestuous night,

A star is wont to spread her locks of gold,

And while her pleasant rays abroad are rolled

Some spiteful cloud doth rob us of her sight;

Fair soul, in this black age so shined thou bright,

And made all eyes with wonder thee behold,

Till ugly death, depriving us of light,

In his grim misty arms did thee enfold.

Who more shall vaunt true beauty here to see?

What hope doth more in any heart remain,

That such perfections shall his reason rein,

If beauty, with thee born, too died with thee?

    World, plain no more of love, nor count his harms;

    With his pale trophies death hath hung his arms.

– William Drummond of Hawthornden (ca. 1614)