Adoration of the shepherds
Anonymous
Ca 1550–1600
Medium
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
Plate: 16 3/4 × 14 in. (42.5 × 35.5 cm) Sheet: 17 3/8 × 14 3/4 in. (44.1 × 37.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1962
Accession Number
62.602.129
About the Artist
Anonymous
In the vast tapestry of art history, "Anonymous" stands not as a singular individual but as a collective designation for countless unidentified creators whose works have endured across millennia. These artists, spanning prehistoric cave painters to medieval illuminators and folk craftsmen, produced the foundational layers of human visual culture. Prior to the Renaissance, when individual fame emer...