Poetry personified as a winged woman
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
7 3/16 x 5 11/16 in. (18.3 x 14.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917
Accession Number
17.50.16-17
Tags
WomenPutti
About the Artist
Anonymous|Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)|Marcantonio Raimondi
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...