Notname

Noun

1. A standard name invented for an artist or author whose identity is unknown.
   • 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. - 1974,...
   • 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. - 2004, Jaarboek van het Koninklijk...
   • 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. - 2016, Koen Goudriaan, Anna Dlabačová,...