Man Destroying Book
Anonymous
1700s
Medium
black chalk heightened with white chalk; framing lines in black ink
Dimensions
{"sheet":{"height":0.576,"width":0.409}}
Classification
Drawing
Department
Drawings
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Dudley P. Allen Fund
Accession Number
1970.337
Tags
gender unknownmale
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...