Guanyin
anonymous
ca. 600 - ca. 800
Medium
gild
Dimensions
5.4; 14.8; 4.9
About this artwork
Staande figuur van de Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara, in zijn linkerhand een kruikje met levenswater, in zijn rechter een vliegenkwast.
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...