Design for a Monstrance
Anonymous
1600s
Medium
pen and brown ink (ruled in places) and brush and brown wash, with graphite, traces of brush and gray and pink wash, and stylus; framing lines in graphite
Dimensions
76.6 × 43 cm
Classification
Drawing
Department
Drawings
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Delia E. Holden Fund
Accession Number
1971.33
Tags
gender unknown
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...