Resumen de Les graffitis d'artistes: signes de dévotion artistique, Rome, Latium, XVe-XIXe siècles
Jérémie Koering, Isolde Pludermacher
Artists' graffiti: signs of artistic devotion, Rome, Latium, 15th-19th centuries.
Graffiti can be found in numerous Roman settings (Vatican stanza and loggia, the Carraci gallery in the Palazzo Farnese, the Santa Andrea Oratorio in San Gregorio al Celio...). Executed between the 15th and the 20th centuries, these inscriptions form palimpsest of names and dates, where famous men and anonymous citizens are found side by side, Poussin's contemporaries next to men of the Romantic era. Among the "writers", one category interests us the most: that of artists. Indeed the painters, sculptors and architects visiting Rome often left their names in the margins of the decorations and the monuments they were studying. And these marks, far from being the result of an act of vandalism, are the signs of a veritable artistic devotion. The semiotic and anthropological investigation proposed here allows us to demostrate the importance and complexity of this phenomenon too often ignored or overlooked by art historians.
