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- Title
Signing with Pseudoscript: Its Presence and Functions in the Oeuvre of Carlo Crivelli.
- Authors
Meinecke, Gregor Christopher
- Abstract
This paper explores the striking presence of pseudoscript Carlo Crivelli’s oeuvre. Its unchanged form testifies the artist’s meticulous execution and clear intention to remain consistent in the depiction of script bearers, such as books and scrolls. He turns his pseudoscript into his personal “handwriting”. But its appearance raises questions: how are we to deal with illegible script in contrast to a legible one? How does it interact with the figures? The article investigates these functions to underline Crivelli’s ways to invent new artifices in his works and prove that the artist was well informed about what his coeval collogues did. As will be shown by means of reception aesthetics, certain functions can only be achieved if the script is illegible, while the materiality of the script bearers as well as the figures who interact with them always take up crucial roles in the creation of meaning around them.
- Subjects
SCRIPTS; AESTHETICS; INTENTION; ARTISTS
- Publication
Il Capitale Culturale: Studies on the Value of Cultural Heritage, 2024, p595
- ISSN
2039-2362
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.13138/2039-2362/3493