Unknown Painters (Italy)

Anonymous Artist
A Group Portrait
ca. 1755
oil on canvas
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Anonymous Artist
Portico with a Lantern
ca. 1741-45
oil on canvas
(an imitation of Canaletto)
Art Institute of Chicago

Anonymous Artist
Miniature Battle Scene
ca. 1650-1700
oil on lapis lazuli
Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich

Anonymous Artist
Martyrdom of St Ignatius of Antioch
ca. 1635-45
oil on canvas
(after a painting by Francesco Fracanzano)
Galleria Borghese, Rome

Anonymous Artist
Cephalus and Aurora
17th century
oil on panel
(after a painting by Agostino Carracci)
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux

Anonymous Artist
Christ the Redeemer
ca. 1600-1625
oil on canvas
Galleria Nazionale di Parma

Anonymous Artist
Portrait of a Young Woman
ca. 1575-80
oil on panel
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Anonymous Artist
Portrait of a Young Man
16th century
oil on canvas
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

Anonymous Artist
Virgin and Child
ca. 1520
oil on canvas, mounted on panel
Portland Art Museum, Oregon

Anonymous Artist
Madonna del Suffragio
ca. 1520
tempera on panel
Allen Memorial Art Museum,
Oberlin College, Ohio

Anonymous Artist
Virgin and Child with young St John the Baptist
ca. 1500-1525
tempera on panel
Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma

Anonymous Artist
Portrait of a Young Woman
ca. 1500
oil on panel
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Anonymous Artist
Initial A with Two Marys at the Empty Tomb
ca. 1495-1505
tempera on vellum
(cutting from illuminated manuscript)
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh

Anonymous Artist
Initial D with Martyrdom of St Peter
15th century
tempera and gold on vellum
(cutting from illuminated manuscript)
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto

Anonymous Artist
Pietà
ca. 1470-80
tempera on panel
(after a painting by Cosmè Tura)
Art Institute of Chicago

Anonymous Artist
Virgin and Child Enthroned
ca. 1400-1450
tempera on panel
(altarpiece fragment)
Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama

Spring Snow

Look at the night sky:

I have two selves, two kinds of power.

I am here with you, at the window, 

watching you react. Yesterday

the moon rose over moist earth in the lower garden.

Now the earth glitters like the moon,

like dead matter crusted with light.

You can close your eyes now:

I have heard your cries, and cries before yours,

and the demand behind them.

I have shown you what you want:

not belief, but capitulation

to authority, which depends on violence. 

– Louise Glück (1992)