While working on the scaffolding of Vecchietta's frescoes in the sacristy at the Santissima Annunziata, Siena (1446–49), thirteen-year-old Benvenuto di Giovanni and another garzone, Guasparre d'Agostino, signed together their names in Greek letters hidden among pseudo-scripts on the hem of the cloak of a seemingly unimportant figure painted about three metres high up on a wall. Previously ignored, this signature is important in that, combined with unpublished documents, it sheds light on Benvenuto di Giovanni's youthful career and, more broadly, the first steps of a garzone on their way to becoming a master. The first known signature in Greek ever to appear in fifteenth-century Italian painting, but enmeshed among pseudo-scripts, Guasparre and Benvenuto's marks are not proof of antiquarian culture. Instead, this signature begs for a historicized concept of both linguistic knowledge and artistic authorship. Hidden, it betrays an interest in the signature as a locus of playful negotiation of identity, suspended between concealment and revelation.

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锡耶纳医院旧圣器收藏室的新名称：伪脚本、隐藏签名和狂妄自我

在锡耶纳的 Santissima Annunziata（1446-49 年）的圣器收藏室中为 Vecchietta 的壁画搭建脚手架时，13 岁的 Benvenuto di Giovanni 和另一个garzone 瓜斯帕雷·达戈斯蒂诺（Guasparre d'Agostino）用隐藏在伪信中的希腊字母签下了他们的名字- 一个看似无关紧要的人物的斗篷下摆上的文字，画在墙上大约三米高。以前被忽略，这个签名很重要，结合未发表的文件，它揭示了 Benvenuto di Giovanni 的年轻职业生涯，更广泛地说，是garzone的第一步在成为大师的路上。第一个已知的希腊签名出现在 15 世纪的意大利绘画中，但被伪文字所困扰，Guasparre 和 Benvenuto 的标记并不是古文化的证据。取而代之的是，这个签名乞求语言知识和艺术作者的历史化概念。隐藏起来，它暴露了对签名的兴趣，作为一种有趣的身份协商场所，在隐藏和揭露之间暂停。