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dc.title	Signatures of Seventeenth-Century Woodcutters in the Wooden Matrices of the Galleria Estense in Modena
dc.contributor.author	Travisonni Chiara
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/firme-di-xilografi-seicenteschi-nelle-matrici-lign/
dc.description.abstract	Though ancient literary sources has usually revealed a scarce interest for woodcuts, the study of writings and signatures in the woodblocks of the Galleria Estense in Modena proves that woodcutters did not always remain at the borders of art history. This is true both for the Venetian production of the first half of the 16th century and for the woodcutters linked to the Accademia Clementina in the Bologna area. Several 17th century woodblocks produced at least in part in Emilia-Romagna and mostly created for large-scale printing, show writings and signatures that can be led back to woodcutters whose specific identity is not easy to discover. This practice was probably more due to commercial reasons than to a possible high reputation that woodcutters had of their work.
dc.relation.ispartof	Venezia Arti
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 26 \| December 2017
dc.issued	2017-12-20
dc.dateAccepted	2017-09-21
dc.dateSubmitted	2017-07-17
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-26-17-12
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Soliani
dc.subject	Soliani
dc.subject	Woodblocks
dc.subject	Woodblocks
dc.subject	Woodcut
dc.subject	Woodcut

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Signatures of Seventeenth-Century Woodcutters in the Wooden Matrices of the Galleria Estense in Modena

Chiara Travisonni Università degli Studi di Parma, Italia

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Though ancient literary sources has usually revealed a scarce interest for woodcuts, the study of writings and signatures in the woodblocks of the Galleria Estense in Modena proves that woodcutters did not always remain at the borders of art history. This is true both for the Venetian production of the first half of the 16th century and for the woodcutters linked to the Accademia Clementina in the Bologna area. Several 17th century woodblocks produced at least in part in Emilia-Romagna and mostly created for large-scale printing, show writings and signatures that can be led back to woodcutters whose specific identity is not easy to discover. This practice was probably more due to commercial reasons than to a possible high reputation that woodcutters had of their work.

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Dec. 20, 2017

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Sept. 21, 2017

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July 17, 2017

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Keywords: Woodblocks • Woodcut • Soliani

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