Multiples in Pre-Modern Art
In the last years replicated objects have gained an increasingly central position in the discourse about ancient, medieval and early modern art. ›Multiples‹, we are often told, lack uniqueness, invention, autonomy, and sometimes even authorship. Indeed, ›multiples‹ can be powerful multipliers - in that they enhance the ›aura of the originals‹ that they replicate - but they remain secondary indexes ...