Demi-Figure of St John the Baptist
anonymous
c. 1650 - c. 1675
Medium
limewood with remnants of polychromy
Dimensions
54; 38; 13
About this artwork
…; acquired in Brussels by Victor de Stuers for the museum, with BK-NM-9283 and -9284, fl. 50 for all three, 1890; on loan to the Goois Museum, Hilversum, 1988-2002
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...