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Monograms have been used as signatures by artists and craft workers on paintings, sculptures and pieces of furniture, especially when guilds enforced measures against unauthorized participation in the trade. A famous example of a monogram serving as an artist's signature is the "AD" used by Albrecht Dürer.
Large crowd with peasants fighting in front of a house. The monogram 'HG' (or 'HC') used to be identified as the signature of the Antwerp artist Willem van Herp.The German biographical dictionary of artists Thieme-Becker grouped a number of works traditionally ascribed to van Herp, which were characterised by figures on a larger scale as the output of an unidentified artist with the same ...
A medallist or medalist (see spelling differences) is an artist who designs medals, ... Signature HB monogram. [292] Alois Börsch (1855 – 1923) [293] [294]
Falk, Peter H. Dictionary of Signatures & Monograms of American Artists: From the Colonial Period to the Mid 20th Century. Madison, Conn: Sound View Press, 1988. Falk, Peter H, Audrey M. Lewis, Georgia Kuchen, and Veronika Roessler. Who Was Who in American Art, 1564–1975: 400 Years of Artists in America. Madison, CT: Sound View Press, 1999.
Cross-signature "KAROLVS" of Charlemagne (circa 782). Cross-signature of Arnulf of Carinthia (890). Signum manus of Otto I (circa 970). Signum manus of Henry III (1049).. Signum manus (transl. sign of the hand, sometimes also known as Chrismon) refers to the medieval European practice of signing a document or charter with a special type of monogram or royal cypher.
The RHL monogram (meaning: Rembrandt Harmenszoon Leidensis, i.e.: Rembrandt, son of Harmen from Leiden) is a particular type of signature that Rembrandt used only in 1628 and possibly in late 1627 or early 1629. The fact that the letters of the monogram were written in the wet paint of the surface is of major importance for dating the painting. [7]
Steinfeld, Cecilia; William H. Goetzmann (Intro), Art for History's Sake The Texas Collection of the Witte Museum 1993; Falk, Peter Hastings, Dictionary of Signatures & Monograms, 1988; Zellman, Michael David, 300 Years of American Art, (two volumes), 1986; Dawdy, Doris, Artists of the American West:A Biographical Dictionary (3 volumes), 1985
The two paintings were found to bear the monogram HB and in 1997 infra-red reflectography conducted on The kitchen maid and her helpers revealed the signature 'Beuckler' and a date of 1570 or 1676 next to the already familiar monogram HB. Based on this discovery Kreidl was able to identify the 'Monogrammist HB' as Huybrecht Beuckeleer.