Profile Bust of a Woman with Flowers in Her Hair
Anonymous
n.d.
Medium
Black crayon on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
34.2 × 29.7 cm (13 1/2 × 11 3/4 in.)
Classification
crayon
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
154428
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...