The Hierarchy of the church in the form of a tree, hell below, a plate from a book
Anonymous
ca. 1550–1650
Dimensions
sheet: 8 13/16 x 6 5/16 in. (22.4 x 16 cm) plate: 7 9/16 x 5 1/8 in. (19.2 x 13 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Accession Number
2012.136.891
Tags
Human FiguresHell
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...