Pinxit
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{{Lang|la|Pinxit}} (from Latin: 'one painted') is a stylized amendment added to the signature depiction of the name of the person responsible for a work of art, found conventionally in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance. It is sometimes abbreviated P, PIN, or PINX, as in some paintings by Raphael.{{cite journal|last=Goffen|first=Rona|title=Raphael's Designer Labels: From the Virgin Mary to La Fornarina|journal=Artibus et Historiae|year=2003|volume=24|issue=48|pages=123–42|doi=10.2307/1483734|jstor=1483734|url=http://aumnicat.aum.edu:2068/stable/pdfplus/1483734.pdf}} The locution me pinxit is found on a 12th-century crucifix, not in a sense connected to individual authorship but rather as a more impersonal devotional statement, a "pious [formula] appropriate for liturgical gifts".{{cite journal|last=Schwartz|first=Michael|title=Raphael's Authorship in the Expulsion of Heliodorus|journal=The Art Bulletin|year=1997|volume=79|issue=3|pages=466–92|doi=10.2307/3046262|jstor=3046262}}
Its use by Duccio {{circa|1255–1260}} – {{circa|1318–1319}}) on the Maestà in Siena Cathedral is seen as an "audacious" claim by the author, who asserts an individual status on a par with that of the city.{{cite journal|last=Christiansen|first=Keith|title=Duccio and the Origins of Western Painting|journal=The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin|year=2008|volume=66|series=New Series|issue=1|pages=1, 6–61|jstor=25434148}} By the Late Middle Ages in Venice and elsewhere pinxit (or other forms of pingere, in Gothic lettering) had become customary, and was often found on a cartellino, "any form of fictive paper carrying an inscription", established in Venice by the 1440s. Other verbs used to establish authorship include conjugations of facere ("to make"; fecit ("made by") was frequently used by Titian) or fingere ("to conceive").{{cite journal|last=Matthew|first=Louisa C.|title=The Painter's Presence: Signatures in Venetian Renaissance Pictures|journal=The Art Bulletin|year=1998|volume=80|issue=4|pages=618–48|doi=10.2307/3051316|jstor=3051316}}{{cite book|last1=Prisant|first1= Carol|last2=Jussel|first2=Chris|title=Antiques Roadshow Primer: The Introductory Guide to Antiques and ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MRKhaO4Ys0AC&pg=PA128|year=1999|isbn=978-0761116240|pages=128–131|publisher= Workman}}
In 18th century New Spain, artists increasingly included pinxit Mexici (painted in Mexico) on works bound for the European market as a sign of pride in their artistic tradition.{{cite web |title=Painted in Mexico, 1700–1790: Pinxit Mexici |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2018/pinxit-mexici |website=www.metmuseum.org |publisher=The Metropolitan Museum of Art |quote=This expression eloquently encapsulates the painters' pride in their own tradition and their connection to larger, transatlantic trends.}}