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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Autor: Pérez Monzón, María Olga
Tipo de recurso: capítulo de libro
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/120371
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/120371
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave: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
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Sumario: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.