Vessel with grotesque masks, griffins, and a frieze populated by a bull and men in bas-relief (reverse copy after Cherubino Alberti, in turn after Polidoro da Caravaggio)
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
plate: 9 7/16 x 6 7/16 in. (24 x 16.3 cm) sheet: 9 13/16 x 6 13/16 in. (25 x 17.3 cm)
Classification
Prints|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Accession Number
2012.136.122
Tags
About the Artist
Anonymous|Cherubino Alberti (Zaccaria Mattia)|Polidoro da Caravaggio|Le Blond
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...