Holy Family
Anonymous
1600s
Medium
pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over traces of black chalk or charcoal
Dimensions
10.3 × 8 cm
Classification
Drawing
Department
Drawings
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Sherman E. Lee
Accession Number
1975.171
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
gender unknown
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...