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<p>[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 376353, member: 5833"]Drunken monks seem to be a genre like dogs playing poker. A search for 'painting drunken monks' turned up many variants, including <a href="https://prokopetz.tumblr.com/post/123724664937/sometimes-an-artist-just-finds-a-niche-and-runs" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://prokopetz.tumblr.com/post/123724664937/sometimes-an-artist-just-finds-a-niche-and-runs" rel="nofollow">another artist who made them a specialty</a> & <a href="https://www.1st-art-gallery.com/Giuseppe-Marastoni/The-Drunken-Monk.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.1st-art-gallery.com/Giuseppe-Marastoni/The-Drunken-Monk.html" rel="nofollow">a company that will have someone paint one just for you</a>, from their available designs or one you provide.</p><p><br /></p><p>My best guess at this point is that Egisto was the author of the original, that it was commercially successful enough for there to have been a demand for copies & that there were journeyman painters willing to supply them who had enough honor to put the correct name without attempting to forge it. It is more significant that the 'signatures' are all different than that the paintings look so much alike.</p><p><br /></p><p>We forget that full color printing hasn't been around all that long. If you wanted a faithful copy of a painting, you had a painter do another.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 376353, member: 5833"]Drunken monks seem to be a genre like dogs playing poker. A search for 'painting drunken monks' turned up many variants, including [URL='https://prokopetz.tumblr.com/post/123724664937/sometimes-an-artist-just-finds-a-niche-and-runs']another artist who made them a specialty[/URL] & [URL='https://www.1st-art-gallery.com/Giuseppe-Marastoni/The-Drunken-Monk.html']a company that will have someone paint one just for you[/URL], from their available designs or one you provide. My best guess at this point is that Egisto was the author of the original, that it was commercially successful enough for there to have been a demand for copies & that there were journeyman painters willing to supply them who had enough honor to put the correct name without attempting to forge it. It is more significant that the 'signatures' are all different than that the paintings look so much alike. We forget that full color printing hasn't been around all that long. If you wanted a faithful copy of a painting, you had a painter do another.[/QUOTE]
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