Ultimately I bring together the information on signatures and related sources to describe some of the notable trends in signing practices during the Middle Ages and Renaissance and what the implications and significance of those trends may be. In separate chapters I then devote considerable attention to issues of textual content placement and location lettering style audience and reception and fundamental social factors, such as the status of sculptors and their works. To that end, my analysis begins with a short breakdown of the signatures’ basic information: geographic distribution, date, artist, material. The project discusses the signatures broadly in order to provide a context with which to study individual cases in detail.
This dissertation examines some 300 signatures and inscriptions from sculptors working in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance in Italy.
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