Old Masters Signatures and Monograms, 1400-Born 1800
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Covers approximately 250 sales of Old Masters since 1980, with an average of five listings from each sale. There are 2,700 signature examples of 1,700 artists. Three sections following the main body of this volume offer the researcher easy cross-referencing—monograms and initials, symbols, and alternate names. The appendix includes supplemental signature information on additional artists whose actual signatures were not available, but whose importance could not be omitted.Author Biography: John Castagno is an artist and researcher and is the author of four other books of artists' signatures. He has had numerous solo exhibitions, group exhibitions and has won several awards.BooknewsLists 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 c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
