Learning, memory and collecting practice: the copy and its uses in Hispanic late Gothic
The text analyses the different functions assumed by copying in the late mediaeval period: as a tool for learning in artistic workshops, as recognition of the authorship of a master or a celebrated work, and as a sort of label or code of identity for a collection. The common nexus of these multiface...
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| Format: | book part |
| Publication Date: | 2023 |
| Country: | España |
| Institution: | Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) |
| Repository: | Docta Complutense |
| Language: | English |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/120371 |
| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/120371 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | 7 (091) Late gothic painting Medieval workshops Copy Originality Juan de Flandes Isabel I de Castilla Roger van der Weyden Juan de Segovia Pedro González de Mendoza Learning Collection Humanidades 5506.02 Historia del Arte |
| Summary: | The text analyses the different functions assumed by copying in the late mediaeval period: as a tool for learning in artistic workshops, as recognition of the authorship of a master or a celebrated work, and as a sort of label or code of identity for a collection. The common nexus of these multifaceted functions is that they share in a positive consideration of the practice of copying, whereas they distance it by contrast from its undervaluation in later periods owing to its presumed counterposition with the concepts of originality and artistic quality. |
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