L. Rebaudo, Le firme dei copisti, «Rivista di Archeologia» 44, 2020, pp. 169-196 (original) (raw)

[Please note that the uploaded pdf file requires a password. To get it, write me at: ludovico.rebaudo@uniud.it] Starting from a skeptical point of view on classical philological approach to ancient copies and Meisterforschung, the paper deals with copyists’ signatures in Hellenistic and Roman time. A list of about thirty signed copies proves that copyists used the standard formula ὁ δεῖνα ἐποίει/ἐποίεσε, such an one has made it , like any sculptor from Archaic to Roman Imperial time. This suggests that copies were probably perceived as standard sculptural artifacts, in which the craftsman could take pride (kleos). Some relevant cases are discussed in full: the bronze Doryphoros herm by Apoll nios of Athens from Herculaneum; the galma of Athena Kranaia by the ‘sons of Polykles’ in Elateia; the Herakles, Hermes and Teseus by Apollonios and Dem trios of Alexandria from Rooms II and III in the Gymnasion of Messene.