Plate for Sr. Ciriaco Matthei and Sr. Mutio Matthei, from a series of twelve showing knights and their attendants dressed for a tournament (plate 12)
Anonymous
1565
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 5 3/4 × 21 9/16 in. (14.6 × 54.8 cm)
Classification
Prints-Fete|Ornament & Architecture|Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953
Accession Number
53.601.163
Tags
HorsesMenKnights
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...