Fonti e risorse per lo studio delle corporazioni "artistiche" a Genova dal medioevo all'età moderna

This contribution offers a review of archival and bibliographical resources on the Genoese artistic guilds. These companies protected and organized the professional activity of the figurative, decorative, and sumptuary arts, providing them with statutory rules. The first subchapter of this essay off...

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Authors: Ciarlo, Letizi, Galassi, Maria Clelia
Format: book part
Publication Date:2024
Country:España
Institution:Universidad Pablo de Olavide (UPO)
Repository:RIO. Repositorio Institucional Olavide
Language:Italian
OAI Identifier:oai:rio.upo.es:10433/23745
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10433/23745
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Genoese artistic guilds
Genoese archives
Società Ligure di Storia Patria
Toponymy
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Summary:This contribution offers a review of archival and bibliographical resources on the Genoese artistic guilds. These companies protected and organized the professional activity of the figurative, decorative, and sumptuary arts, providing them with statutory rules. The first subchapter of this essay offers a summary of the data obtained from the city center’s toponymy, which still today evokes, with its streets and squares’ names, the ancient presence of the workshops, normally concentrated around the church of reference of the art they belonged to. The authors then analyze the archival funds located in several archives in Genoa and whose consistency is jeopardized by dispersion and historic destruction of much material. The third subchapter introduces a full and critical review of the available bibliography: from the first essays appeared in the 19th century in the journal of the Società Ligure di Storia Patria, to the latest works of the 20th and 21st centuries. While the first studies focused on legal and statuary regulations of the arts, from the post-war period onwards, under the impetus of the socio-economic disciplines and the social history of art, several scholars have been focusing over the past years on the organization of art making and art labor and the specificities of each corporative organization.