Architectural Design for a Monumental Altar, with a Composition with Saint Michael Against Satan and two Saints (Saints Peter and Paul?)
Medium
Pen and brown ink, over black chalk, brush with green, purple, yellow, and brown washes, ruler incisions.
Dimensions
6 x 4-1/8 in. (15.2 x 10.5 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1969
Accession Number
69.660.1
Tags
About the Artist
Anonymous|Cavaliere d'Arpino (Giuseppe Cesari)
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...