Signatures of Artists
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In English and Spanish. Catalog from the exhibition "Andrés Sánchez Gallque y los primeros pintores en la Audiencia de Quito" held at the Museo de Arte Colonial in Quito, Ecuador (2014). This is the galley proof. The footnotes for my... more
Cet ouvrage rassemble quinze articles explorant les deux aspects, distincts mais imbriqués, de la fabrication et de la réception des œuvres d’orfèvrerie à l’époque gothique. Embrassant la période qui va du début du XIIIe au début du XVIe... more
[Please note that the uploaded pdf file requires a password. To get it, write me at: ludovico.rebaudo@uniud.it] Starting from a skeptical point of view on classical philological approach to ancient copies and Meisterforschung, the paper... more
En els darrers anys una sèrie d’estudis han intentat esbrinar, amb major o menor dificultat, com era el procés d’aprenentatge de l’artista romànic, quins eren els seus mètodes de treball i, finalment, quin era el seu estatus social. Amb... more
Il volume raccoglie gli studi che amici, colleghi e allievi hanno voluto dedicare a Marina Righetti in occasione dei suoi settant'anni. Allieva di Angiola Maria Romanini, con cui si è formata dopo essersi laureata con Cesare Brandi, si è... more
Obituary of Maria Monica Donato (1959-2014), formerly professor of medieval art at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa.
The aim of the present communication is to offer a new study of potters’ signatures during the Orientalising and Archaic periods. Most signatures are attested on ceramics (with only a few exceptions on stone). The point is to reconsider... more
This paper is dedicated to the problem of artists’ signatures in Byzantium and, more specifically, to the question of anonymity, which is often considered to be a basic characteristic of Eastern Christian art. Declaration of authorship is... more
Abstract: In late Byzantine monumental painting, works are rarely signed by the artists and even when they are, it is very scarce for us to have more than one signed work by the same painter. Exceptions to this “rule” are two masters,... more
Susan Frances Jones, Anne-Sophie Augustyniak and Hélène Dubois, ‘The Authenticity of the Quatrain and the other Frame Inscriptions’, in The Ghent Altarpiece. Research and Conservation of the Exterior. First Phase, (Contributions to the... more
Suite à l’exposition The Year 1200, organisée en 1970 par le Metropolitan Museum of Art de New York, l’idée prédominante de l’historiographie européenne a été que l’impact de l’art byzantin dans la peinture occidentale s’était produit... more
Resumen: El presente estudio investiga las relaciones entre la escritura, la pintura y el poder socio-político mediante el análisis de las firmas de los pintores andinos a principios de la época colonial en Quito. En particular, se enfoca... more
The mysterious kneeling figure carved on the east-facing side of the trumeau of the Pórtico de la Gloria has long been thought of as a self-portrait of Maestro Mateo - one in which he shows humility before God. This kind of depiction goes... more
As it is well acknowledged, the formulas of the Etruscan aristocratic gift-exchange, attested by several inscriptions of the 7th to mid-6th century BCE, derive from a broader oral tradition, which has left trace in the epigraphic... more
La scheda n. 15 è dedicata al candelabro bronzeo dell'abbazia di Polirone (San Benedetto Po, Mantova), qui attribuito a maestranze bizantine e datato ipoteticamente fra l'XI e il XII secolo. La scheda n. 16 illustra invece il candelabro... more
The twenty-five papers in this volume arise from a conference jointly organised by the British Archaeological Association and the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya in Barcelona. They explore the making of art and architecture in Latin... more
How did the profession and the status of goldsmiths change in the Middle Ages? This contribution first of all questions the relevance of the proposed chronology (11th-13th centuries) for analysing these possible transformations. After... more
L’œuvre d’Hugo d’Oignies et de son atelier (essentiellement 1228-1240) comporte de nombreuses inscriptions, comme c’est souvent le cas d’ailleurs des pièces d’orfèvrerie mosane. La plupart d’entre elles donnent des précisions sur les... more
The category of medieval inscriptions generally known as "artists' signatures" is traditionally considered as the artist’s claim of authorship of a work, in order to obtain recognition of his talent and status. This study aims to question... more