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Old Masters
Lists alphabetically 1,700 artists and provides one or more examples of their signatures, as a guide for art historians and collectors. The entries also identify the artist's nationality, birth and death dates, bibliographical references, and catalogue auction dates that can lead researchers to pictorial references and values. Additional sections present monograms and symbols, cross-reference by alternative names, and describe signatures the actual reproduction of which was not available for publication. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
John Castagno
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European Artists III
John Castagno's Artists' Signatures and Monograms have become the standard reference source for galleries, museums, libraries, and collectors around the world. Whether used to identify, authenticate, or verify signatures and works of both well-known and little-known artists, Castagno's work has no equal. In the first volume of European Artists Signatures and Monograms, 1800-1990 (Scarecrow, 1990), Castagno provided identification for more than 4,800 artists' signatures, along with biographical information and reference sources. The second volume, published by Scarecrow in 2007, identified an additional 2,100 artists and featured 3,000 signature examples. This third volume features an additio...
Old Masters
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Jewish Artists
John Castagno has collected more than 1,100 signatures and monograms of Jewish artists and artists whose work reflects Jewish themes.
African, Asian and Middle Eastern Artists
John Castagno's Artists' Signatures and Monograms have become the standard reference source for galleries, museums, libraries, and collectors around the world. In African, Asian and Middle Eastern Artists Signatures and Monograms From 1800: A Directory, Castagno has collected the signatures and monograms of artists from Africa, Asia, and the Middle East—including signature examples of artists from China, India, Japan, South Africa, Israel, and many other countries. In addition to the standard signature entries, the book contains sections for monograms and initials, common surname signatures, alternative surname signatures, and symbols. It provides the researcher a reference tool not duplicated elsewhere—one that will save many hours of research.
Old Masters II
John Castagno's Artists' Signatures and Monograms have become the standard reference source for galleries, museums, libraries, and collectors around the world. Old Masters II: Signatures and Monograms, An International Directory features more than 800 artists, with more than 1,100 signature examples. It provides the researcher a reference tool not duplicated elsewhere—one that will save many hours of research.
Andrea Del Castagno and His Patrons
Most studies of Renaissance patronage in the arts deal with a particular patron and the artists who worked for him. John R. Spencer reverses this approach by focusing on one fifteenth-century Florentine artist, Andrea del Castagno, and his patrons. Combining social and art history, Spencer casts new light on both the career of Castagno and on the nature of art patronage in the early Renaissance. Through careful and detailed archival research, Spencer creates a fascinating portrait of Castagno's patronage as a web, at the center of which was Cosimo de' Medici, who constituted the focal point of a network of business partnerships, real estate transactions, loans, and special privileges in whic...
Artists' Monograms and Indiscernible Signatures III
John Castagno's Artists' Signatures and Monograms have become the standard reference source for galleries, museums, libraries, and collectors around the world. Whether used to identify, authenticate, or verify signatures and works of both well-known and little-known artists, Castagno's work has no equal. In the first volume of Artists Monograms and Indiscernible Signatures, An International Directory, 1800-1991 (Scarecrow, 1991), Castagno provided identification for more than 3,700 artists' signatures, along with biographical information and reference sources. The second volume featured some 2,100 artists and 3,000 signature examples. This third volume contains more than 1,250 signatures of ...
European Artists III
John Castagno's Artists' Signatures and Monograms have become the standard reference source for galleries, museums, libraries, and collectors around the world. European Artists III: Signatures and Monograms From 1800, A Directory features an additional 2,800 artists and signatures. In addition to the standard signature entries, the book features sections for monograms and initials, common surname signatures, alternative surname signatures, and illegible signatures. It provides the researcher a reference tool not duplicated elsewhere—one that will save many hours of research.
