The Artist’s Presence. Medieval Artefacts with Artists’ Signatures (A12)

• Subject Area: Art History
• Term: from 2020 to 2023
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 178035969

This project investigates medieval works of art that have been signed by their artists. It analyses how this way of inscribing a name endowed it with presence and how this presence could become effective in actions where an artefact bearing a signature is involved (whether this be an action of liturgical, political or of other nature). The project is intended to pave the way towards an innovative approach to artists’ signatures by focusing not only on the artist, but on the signed artefacts as scripto-pictorial media, and on the reception practices related to them.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 933: Material Text Cultures. Materiality and Presence of Writing in Non-Typographic Societies
• Applicant Institution: Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
• Project Head: Professorin Dr. Rebecca Müller