Notname
Noun
A standard name invented for an artist or author whose identity is unknown.
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The use of the Notname was a frank admission that the lot in question was less prestigious than originally suggested, and the final price paid was lower than what would be expected for a Castagno painting.
The triptych with The Adoration of the Magi in the Antwerp museum (cat. 68) inspired the Notname of the anonymous master of the works of Group D: Master of the Antwerp Adoration.
On the basis of this statement scholars have looked for the whereabouts of the producer of this text – who is called by the Notname 'Printer of the Kerstenspiegel' – in Louvain.
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