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Title: From Allegri to Laetus-Lieto: the shaping of Correggio's artistic distinctiveness.
Author: Giancarla Periti
Publication: The Art Bulletin (Refereed)
Date: September 1, 2004
Publisher: College Art Association
Volume: 86 Issue: 3 Page: 459(18)Distributed by Thompson Gale

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The placing of artists' signatures on works of art has been viewed as an act that communicates the masters' presence and authenticates the authorship. Signatures usually consist of artists' names or monograms, but they also appear as visual, phonetic, emblematic, or literary transformations of the masters' names. These alternative forms of self-identification may occur not only as signatures on works of art but also as the artists' chosen name in records. This essay focuses on a paradigmatic case of an artist's self-naming, exploring the denotative force of the name and how it contributed to forging both the master's personal and professional persona. Names were part of the metaphoric way of thinking about individuals and their identities in the...