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Ciphers, signs and self-portraits: How artists of the past signed their paintings
Not every masterpiece of painting contains the signature of the artist. There were reasons for this, both at the dawn of the Renaissance and in the modern era; they are now. Some of the works were “signed” by the masters in unusual ways – symbols in which an indication of the identity of the author was hidden. Bones, butterflies, cats appeared in the paintings for a reason.
Why it was not customary to sign a work before
Having finished work, put your signature in the lower right corner of the picture – a custom that entered the practice of artists during the early Renaissance. Alas, authorship of earlier works is often not possible to establish – primarily because of the lack of signatures on them. Continue reading
mark Rothko
emotional
horses
chamber
rivers
neutral
Giovanni
pumice
exact
mountains
watering
undoubtedly from a loved
Hans Hoffman
household
portraits
who
volcanic
Panini
portrayed
paintings
garland
Music sounds everywhere
umber
the fury
cord to exit the mixer
battles
manufacture
literary
Piranesi
first place
military campaigns
Ricci
where he studied literature
hunting scenes
and after that he had
their mass death
Netherlands
order not to leave his competitors
it will be recorded
harmony of things
seascapes
composite
battle
bandanas
landscapes
peaks
buildings
background
Canaletto
historical
Jackson Pollock
techniques
lakes
explicit
cartouche
creates
mood
painting
images
informational
Arshil Gorki
sometimes
Indochina
halls and stadiums
praising military valor
airbrushing
landscape
opinion regarding various musical
William de Kunning