Signed gems and authorship: Some considerations · The paper aims to address some issues concerning the late Hellenistic and early Roman signed gems, focusing on the theme of their authorship. How far can authors be free to create new subject-matters and how far can they be influenced by the requests of potential patrons, instead? How wide is the margin for autonomous creation and how much codified repertoires devised for this category of objects are brought to bear? To what extent does the quality of the materials to be carved or sculpted direct the choice of a subject during the graphic design? And how much does the technique contribute to the result, also from a stylistic-formal point of view? How much then does the symbolic meaning attributed to the individual stones guide the choice of the subject? And how much the art literature intervenes in the appreciation of the finished product?
Gemme firmate e autorialità: qualche considerazione
Micheli Maria Elisa
2022
Abstract
Signed gems and authorship: Some considerations · The paper aims to address some issues concerning the late Hellenistic and early Roman signed gems, focusing on the theme of their authorship. How far can authors be free to create new subject-matters and how far can they be influenced by the requests of potential patrons, instead? How wide is the margin for autonomous creation and how much codified repertoires devised for this category of objects are brought to bear? To what extent does the quality of the materials to be carved or sculpted direct the choice of a subject during the graphic design? And how much does the technique contribute to the result, also from a stylistic-formal point of view? How much then does the symbolic meaning attributed to the individual stones guide the choice of the subject? And how much the art literature intervenes in the appreciation of the finished product?I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
