The Artist's Signature in Romanesque France

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dc.identifier	ECF_article_1305
dc.title	The Artist's Signature in Romanesque France. Problems, Forms, Functions
dc.contributor.author	Mineo Emilie
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	it
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/venezia-arti/2017/1/la-firma-dartista-nella-francia-romanica/
dc.description.abstract	This paper aims to discuss some issues related to artists’ signatures during the XIth and XIIth centuries, focusing on a corpus of French inscriptions, broadly neglected in previous works. After a short introduction of the corpus, the second part of the article undertakes to evaluate the writing skills of those who executed these inscriptions. The last part deals with the value of theses signatures, traditionally considered as the artist’s claim of authorship of a work, in order to obtain recognition of his talent and status. However, since the analysis of their exhibition contexts shows that they were often invisible to a large public, and that they were concentrated in symbolic spaces of the church, this study suggests their interpretation from a devotional and eschatological perspective.
dc.relation.ispartof	Venezia Arti
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 26 \| December 2017
dc.issued	2017-12-20
dc.dateSubmitted	2017-07-13
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2385-2720
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.14277/2385-2720/VA-26-17-3
dc.peer-review	no
dc.subject	Literacy
dc.subject	Literacy
dc.subject	Medieval Artist
dc.subject	Medieval Artist
dc.subject	Medieval Epigraphy
dc.subject	Medieval Epigraphy
dc.subject	Romanesque (France)
dc.subject	Romanesque (France)
dc.subject	Signature
dc.subject	Signature

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Problems, Forms, Functions

Emilie Mineo Université de Poitiers, CESCM, France

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This paper aims to discuss some issues related to artists’ signatures during the XIth and XIIth centuries, focusing on a corpus of French inscriptions, broadly neglected in previous works. After a short introduction of the corpus, the second part of the article undertakes to evaluate the writing skills of those who executed these inscriptions. The last part deals with the value of theses signatures, traditionally considered as the artist’s claim of authorship of a work, in order to obtain recognition of his talent and status. However, since the analysis of their exhibition contexts shows that they were often invisible to a large public, and that they were concentrated in symbolic spaces of the church, this study suggests their interpretation from a devotional and eschatological perspective.

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Dec. 20, 2017

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July 13, 2017

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Keywords: Medieval Epigraphy • Romanesque (France) • Medieval Artist • Signature • Literacy

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