Architecturally-Shaped Tabernacle with a Saint and Four Putti
ca. 1530–49
Medium
Etching with gray wash
Dimensions
Sheet (trimmed): 5 3/8 × 5 5/8 in. (13.7 × 14.3 cm)
Classification
Prints|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Edward Pearce Casey and Charles Z. Offin Funds, 2012
Accession Number
2012.232
Tags
About the Artist
Anonymous|Jacques Androuet Du Cerceau
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...