Corneille de Lyon: French portraits, Venetian frames, Islamic ornament

Maarten van  ’t Klooster delves into the framing history of Corneille de Lyon’s small portraits of the French aristocracy, to try to discover when so many of them might have been matched with the decorative Italianate aedicules now so closely associated with them. This is followed by a short piece on the history of the … Continue reading Corneille de Lyon: French portraits, Venetian frames, Islamic ornament