Marks & Brands on Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Dutch and Flemish Paintings on Panel or Copper. History – Meaning – Digitization.

Activity: Talk or presentationLecture and oral contribution

Description

On the reverse of early modern Dutch and Flemish paintings panel and copper plate makers often marked their products with a personal mark, a monogram or a house-mark. This is particularly known from Antwerp but happened in the Northern Netherlands as well. In Antwerp, after a quality check, the guild of St. Luke branded the approved supports with a hall mark too. These marks provide unique information about dating of the artwork, place of manufacture, maker and trade. Marks on art are difficult to interpret even for art experts, thus a trustful and easily accessible database is a longstanding wish in the field. Marks on Art, as the project is called, will be integrated into the existing database infrastructure of the RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History, permitting cross-linking between artwork, artist and technical research data such as also dendrochronological research results. My project is the second phase of the Marks on Art project, and will focus specifically on the digitization, identification and digital publication of maker’s marks and guild hall marks.
Period2 Mar 2023
Held atThe J. Paul Getty Trust – The Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) -, United States
Degree of RecognitionInternational