“DE PILOSO FONTE SUM”: ON DISHONORABLE BACKGROUNDS, LAWSUITS, GUILDS, AND ARTISANS IN EARLY RENAISSANCE CLUJ
“DE PILOSO FONTE SUM”: ON DISHONORABLE BACKGROUNDS, LAWSUITS, GUILDS, AND ARTISANS IN EARLY RENAISSANCE CLUJ
Author(s): Ciprian FireaSubject(s): Social history, 16th Century, History of Art
Published by: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai
Keywords: painter; painters’ guild; biography of artists; Renaissance; Cluj; Transylvania;
Summary/Abstract: “De Piloso Fonte Sum”: On Dishonorable Backgrounds, Lawsuits, Guilds, and Artisans in Early Renaissance Cluj. This study, based on an exceptional source (a judicial record of 1549, published here for the first time) aims at the restitution of the biography and the distinctive character and personality of an early Renaissance painter from Transylvania, Gregorius Pictor, while making recurrent references to the artistic milieu of the sixteenth century Cluj – the town where he was mainly active. The study reveals, undoubtedly, one of the most comprehensive painters’ biographies of Transylvania in early modern times.
Journal: Studia Universitatis Babes Bolyai - Historia Artium
- Issue Year: LXVIII/2023
- Issue No: 68
- Page Range: 45-66
- Page Count: 22
- Language: English
