Motif mark

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Motif marks were used to optically "enrich" the gilded backgrounds in medieval panel painting.

Motivpunzen are hallmarks of motivic shapes (stars, leaves, etc.), by the artists in the Middle Ages in the gilded backgrounds of her paintings ( Gold Plate were pressed). They served to enrich and enliven the gold ground.

development

Motif hallmarks can already be identified in Byzantine painting of the 6th century, but enriched the gold ground pictures in Lucca and Florence for the first time in the 13th century. Motif hallmarks were passed on from one generation of artists to the next, but were also exchanged between artist workshops.

meaning

In addition to the motif, motif hallmarks can have other characteristic features such as fine notches by which they can be identified. In questions of the dating, attribution and authenticity of a painting, the investigation can be important. This is particularly the case in medieval panel painting, which is still characterized by rigid guild regulations, in which the paintings are usually unsigned and an artist's “handwriting” has hardly any characteristic peculiarities.

literature

  • Knut Nicolaus: Handbook of painting studies. DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 2003. ISBN 3-8321-7288-2

Individual evidence

  1. Knut Nicolaus: DuMont's image lexicon for determining paintings . DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 1982, ISBN 3-7701-1243-1 , p. 141 ff .
  2. MS Frinta: On the punched decoration in medieval panel painting and manuscript illustrations . In: Conservation of Paintings and Graphic Arts . ICC, London 1972.