St Mark the Evangelist, holding a banderole (possibly a modern impression)
Anonymous
ca. 1480–1520
Medium
Engraving, printed from a plate engraved in the niello manner
Dimensions
Sheet: 14 3/16 × 12 5/8 in. (36 × 32 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Leo Steinberg, 1991
Accession Number
1991.1338.2
Tags
PortraitsSaint Mark
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...