Key with barrel shank
anonymous
c. 1575 - c. 1600
Medium
ciselure
Dimensions
10.1; 3.7
About this artwork
…; donated by Emanuël Vita Israel (1873-1940), Amsterdam, to the Koninklijk Oudheidkundig Genootschap, Amsterdam, 1937;{Note RMA.} from whom on loan to the museum, 1944
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...