Alexander the Great meeting Diogenes
Anonymous|Diogenes|Alexander III of Macedon
ca. 1580–1640
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet (Trimmed): 8 11/16 × 6 7/16 in. (22 × 16.3 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Joseph Verner Reed, 1950
Accession Number
50.576.154
About the Artist
Anonymous|Diogenes|Alexander III of Macedon
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...