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Artists

Every maker in the archive. From the ancient workshops to the artists working today, who carry a green dot.

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All 310 makers in the archive

by surname

Unrecorded hands94

Anonymous Constantinopolitan court workshop1Anonymous French maker, c. 16951Anonymous Genoese cartographic workshop1Sculptors of the Amaravati school, Andhra1The Hanlin Academy compilation project, under chief compilers Xie Jin...1The priestly synod of Memphis1The Prussian court amber workshop, Berlin and Danzig1Unidentified Ayyubid metalworking workshop, Damascus1Unidentified goldsmiths, Popayan and viceroyalty of New Granada1Unidentified Greek bronze caster1Unidentified Hellenistic astronomer-engineer1Unidentified Jingdezhen-region kilns, Yuan dynasty1Unidentified Khurasan metalworker, Seljuq period1Unidentified Late Antique workshop1Unidentified maker1Unidentified maker, in the manner of Bernard Palissy1Unidentified Mamluk glass workshop, Syria1Unidentified Mamluk-period glass workshop1Unidentified metalworker, eastern Iran1Unidentified metalworking workshop in the al-Mawsili tradition1Unidentified metalworking workshop, Ilkhanid Iran1Unidentified metalworking workshop, Iran, Khurasan1Unidentified Safavid court carpet workshop1Unidentified sculptor, Greek Archaic or modern1Unidentified tapestry workshop, Arras1Unidentified weaver, Iran or Iraq1Unidentified workshop of the Mosul tradition of inlaid metalwork1Unidentified workshop, attributed to Norman Sicily1Unknown Alexandrian glass workshop1Unknown Anglo-Saxon goldsmith or goldsmiths' workshop1Unknown Anglo-Saxon silversmiths1Unknown armorer, Japan1Unknown Babylonian scribal workshop, working for the court of Cyrus...1Unknown Babylonian scribe1Unknown bronze-founder, Cordoban Caliphal workshop1Unknown copyist, south German or Alsatian scriptorium1Unknown Early Bronze Age Anatolian goldsmiths1Unknown English embroiderers, made under the patronage of Bishop Odo...1Unknown English maker, working from continental ornament prints1Unknown goldsmith of Orientalizing-period Latium or Etruria, named...1Unknown goldsmith, Lower Italian or Sicilian workshop1Unknown Greco-Roman bronze-caster1Unknown Greek maker, working in a tradition associated with Rhodes...1Unknown illuminator associated with the Cholet Group1Unknown Irish ecclesiastical metalworking workshop, probably Munster1Unknown Irish goldsmith1Unknown Islamic glass workshop1Unknown Islamic metalworking workshop1Unknown Jaziran glass workshop, with an unknown Parisian goldsmith's...1Unknown late Roman glass workshop1Unknown Late Roman silversmith1Unknown Late Roman silversmith's workshop1Unknown maker1Unknown maker1Unknown maker, Anglo-Saxon craft tradition1Unknown maker, Burgundy, possibly the circle of Hugues Sambin1Unknown maker, Gaelic harp-making tradition1Unknown maker, Roman cavalry-equipment workshop1Unknown marble carvers, Gyeongcheonsa Temple commission1Unknown Maya scribe1Unknown metalworker1Unknown Northumbrian monastic workshop1Unknown painter of the Kyoto court circle, formerly given to Tokiwa...1Unknown Parisian goldsmith, Valois court1Unknown Portuguese chartmaker1Unknown Roman gold-glass engraver1Unknown Roman gold-glass workshop, location disputed between Rome and...1Unknown Roman silversmiths1Unknown Roman silversmiths' workshop1Unknown Roman workshop1Unknown Romano-British silversmith1Unknown royal goldsmith, Parisian court workshop1Unknown royal metalworkers, workshop of Tutankhamun's reign1Unknown sculptor, western Greek workshop1Unknown South Netherlandish1Unknown Sumerian craftsmen, Ur1Unknown weaver or weavers, Harjedalen1Unknown weaver or weavers, Vestfold workshop1Unknown weavers, southern Netherlands, after cartoons attributed to...1Unknown workshop, late Ptolemaic Egypt1Unknown workshop, probable East Scandinavian1Unknown workshop, probably North Africa1Unknown, southern Persia1Unknown1Unrecorded Byzantine silversmith1Unrecorded English goldsmith1Unrecorded Greek bronze caster1Unrecorded Hellenistic Sicilian workshop, probably Syracuse1Unrecorded Lydian goldsmiths, Sardis region1Unrecorded medieval goldsmiths' workshops serving the French crown1Unrecorded Mexica sculptor, Tenochtitlan1Unrecorded nineteenth-century goldsmith1Unrecorded sculptor of Phnom Da, Angkor Borei1Unrecorded silversmith, northern Syria1

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