Making copies in European art 1400-1600: shifting tastes, modes of transmission, and changing contexts

Abstract

In 'Making Copies in European Art 1400-1600', Maddalena Bellavitis collects 16 essays by significant scholars, who have explored in their research diverse aspects of the artistic process and the motivations behind the creation of copies after important Renaissance works of art. The essays underline the binds and exchanges between different contexts or artistic techniques that copies can establish. They concern principal artists of different artistic environments, and analyze which were the characteristics, iconographies and elements that copyists, collectors and donors focused on, and the several ways chosen to reproduce them. Still unpublished or unstudied paintings and documentation, intriguing iconographies and reconstructions of lost itineraries covered by works and their copies, augment this volume's public and institutional appeal.