notname

Also known as provisional name, not-name, name of convenience, emergency name, nonce name

upright=0.8|thumb|Berlin Painter's [[Name vase]] upright=0.8|thumb|Virgin and Child in a Landscape, the Master of the Embroidered Foliage 1492–1498. [[Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis]] In art history, a '''''' (, "name of necessity" or "contingency name") is an invented name given to an artist whose identity has been lost. The practice arose from the need to give such artists and their typically untitled or generically titled works an acceptable if unsatisfactory grouping to avoid confusion when cataloging.

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upright=0.8|thumb|Berlin Painter's [[Name vase]] upright=0.8|thumb|Virgin and Child in a Landscape, the Master of the Embroidered Foliage 1492–1498. [[Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis]] In art history, a ' (, "name of necessity" or "contingency name") is an invented name given to an artist whose identity has been lost. The practice arose from the need to give such artists and their typically untitled or generically titled works an acceptable if unsatisfactory grouping to avoid confusion when cataloging.

The phrases provisional name, name of convenience, and emergency names are sometimes used to describe anonymous masters. Nonce name' was at one time used.