Unknown Makers (Germany)

Anonymous Maker
Portrait of Vittoria Caldoni
(professional artist's model in Rome)
1821
marble
Kurpfälzisches Museum, Heidelberg

Anonymous Maker
Christ Child as the Good Shepherd
ca. 1750
wax figure dressed in silks
Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich

Anonymous Maker
Adoring Angel
ca. 1740-60
painted and gilded wood
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh

Anonymous Maker
Personification of Old Age
ca. 1600-1625
boxwood
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto

Anonymous Maker
Cutlery Case
1572
boxwood
(carrier for eating utensils)
Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina

Anonymous Maker
Landsknecht as Chess Piece (Pawn)
ca. 1570
gilt bronze
Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich

Anonymous Maker
Model Castle
ca. 1530-40
painted wood
Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich

Anonymous Maker
Joachim and Anna at the Golden Gate
ca. 1525
painted lindenwood relief
(after design by Albrecht Altdorfer)
Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich

Anonymous Maker
Virgin and Child
ca. 1525
painted lindenwood
Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich

Anonymous Maker
St Martin and the Beggar
ca. 1520
painted lindenwood
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Anonymous Maker
Judas Hanged
(demon seizing his soul)
ca. 1520
painted glass
Art Institute of Chicago

Anonymous Maker
Death riding a Lion
1513
lindenwood
Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich

Anonymous Maker
Processional Staff - Ingolstadt Guild of Fishermen and Boatmen
1509
painted lindenwood
Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich

Anonymous Maker
Virgin and Child
ca. 1500
painted wood
Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina

Anonymous Maker
Virgin and Child
ca. 1490-1500
painted lindenwood
Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich

Anonymous Maker
Virgin and Child
ca. 1480
sandstone
Bode Museum, Berlin

The Red Poppy

The great thing

is not having

a mind. Feelings:

oh, I have those: they

govern me. I have

a lord in heaven

called the sun, and open

for him, showing him

the fire of my own heart, fire

like his presence.

What could such glory be

if not a heart? Oh my brothers and sisters,

were you like me once, long ago,

before you were human? Did you

permit yourselves

to open once, who would never

open again? Because in truth

I am speaking now

the way you do. I speak

because I am shattered.

– Louise Glück (1992)