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FRAME ARTICLES BY PERIOD
Roman period: 3rd century BC – 3rd century AD
13th-14th century
14th-15th century
- Frames in paintings: Part 1 – Gothic, Renaissance and Mannerist
- Painters & woodcarvers in early Renaissance Italy
15th century
- The rise of the all’antica altarpiece frame
- Reframing the Renaissance: Museums and Madonnas
- The miracle of Cortemaggiore: a 500-year-old frame returns home
- Renaissance symbols: the iconography of a 15th century frame
15th-16th century
- Framing the miraculous: the devotional functions of perspective in Italian Renaissance tabernacle design
- Frames in paintings: Part 1 – Gothic, Renaissance and Mannerist
- Presenting the legend: the many frames of Raphael
- Framing relief sculptures
- Book review: Frame work: honour and ornament in Italian Renaissance art
- The tondo frame in Renaissance Florence: a round-up
- Fruit, flowers, foliage: the symbolism of Renaissance frames
- National Gallery, London: reframing Mantegna
- National Gallery, London: reframing Bellini
- Painters & woodcarvers in early Renaissance Italy
- National Gallery, London: a Venetian pastiglia frame
16th century
- Giulio Licinio’s Pietà with mourning angels reunited with its frame
- An intriguing Venetian trophy frame, linked to the Battle of Lepanto
- Framing the drawing
- Framing Titian’s poesie
- Reasons for reframing: focusing on Titian
- National Gallery, London: The reframing of Lazarus
- Strigillated frames: the ripples of Mannerism
- National Gallery, London: reframing Mantegna’s grisailles
- National Gallery frame appeal…
- Girolamo da Santacroce’s polyptych in Košljun, Croatia
16th-17th century
- Framing the European paintings at The Metropolitan Museum: Part 1
- A brief note on Ukrainian Baroque frames
- Corneille de Lyon: French portraits, Venetian frames, Islamic ornament
- Framing Renaissance portrait miniatures in Paris and London
- A Nanban painting and its frame, commissioned by the Jesuits in the Age of Exploration
- Frames in Focus: Sansovino Frames – an exhibition at the National Gallery, London
- National Gallery, London: new Mannerist frames
- Reframing Raphael: the Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione
17th century
- An introduction to frames with covers, shutters and curtains: Part 4: The drama of Leonardo Scaglia’s altarpieces
- Science, gardens and the Baroque frame
- Il Volterrano and a Baroque Florentine frame: part of a thematic programme?
- Nicolaes Maes: original frames, French fashions, metal appliqués
- The Christmas star
- An introduction to Spanish Baroque frames in the Golden Age
- Kwab: The Auricular in Amsterdam
- Framing miniatures in the 17th century : The Golden Age of ‘la boîte à portrait’
- The enigma of an Italian Baroque leaf frame
- Bees in the frame: Part 1 – the Barberini bee
- Dulwich Picture Gallery, London: reframing Allori
- Fitzwilliam Museum: the Russell Frame
- The website of the Auricular Style: Frames project
- Auricular Style: Frames – a conference; 2016
- Restoring a Grinling Gibbons frame
- Recreating an Auricular frame
- Norwich Castle: the frame of The Paston Treasure
- Mauritshuis frames: Part II: trophy frames
- Van Dyck, Dobson and their Mannerist frames
17th-18th century
- Framing the drawing
- The oval frame in 18th century France
- Completing the Image: Baroque Frames from the collection of Philippe Ávila
- Early American frames in the 17th and 18th centuries
- Frames: State of the Art. Part 3: Royal frames
- Framing the Louvre’s pastels
- Cataloguing Baroque azulejo frames: a project in progress
- The Baroque Galleries at the V & A: Frames
- Book review: Ham House – 400 years of collecting & patronage, ed. Christopher Rowell…
18th century
- An intriguing Venetian trophy frame, linked to the Battle of Lepanto
- Review of the conference ‘Rococo across borders: designers & makers’
- The Choiseul Box: a new jewel of miniature painting in the Musée du Louvre
- Artcurial: ‘Cent portraits pour un siècle’: a sale of 18th century portraits
- Serge Roche: Cadres français et étrangers du XVe siècle au XVIIIe siècle – Part 2
- Thomas Gainsborough and picture framing
- Reviving Rococo: an interview with master carver Bernhard Lankers by Mark Alexander
- 18th century French frames and their ornamentation
- A signed frame by Jean Chérin
- Drawings for frames by Jean-Charles Delafosse (1734-89)
- Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun: Part II: her pastel frames, 1772-1789
- Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun: Part I: a review of the 2015-2016 exhibition, with a general note on some frames
- Frame simulations in 18th century Portuguese azulejos
- Liotard: a review of the RA exhibition, with a general note on his frames
- Book review: William Kent: Designing Georgian Britain, ed. Susan Weber
- Authors in the frame: ‘Reading’ novel frontispieces in the eighteenth century
- Framing history in early Princeton
- Carving & gilding a British Rococo frame
- Hogarth’s Framemaker
- The frame as a vehicle for symbol and significance
18th-19th century
- Jacques-Louis David’s frames: Revolution, Empire and beyond
- Bonzanigo and the micro-sculptural frame
- Sir John Soane’s Museum frame appeal
- The clue is in the frame: or what a label can reveal
- Henry Bone: framing enamel paintings
- The borders of commerce: Part 1
19th century
- What artists, critics & collectors say about frames: Part 3
- Giovanni Segantini’s frames
- Artists’ frames in 19th century Denmark
- Olympian frames: Frederic, Lord Leighton
- Victorians in London
- The ideal craftsman: the Danish court gilder Peder Christian Damborg (1801-65)
- G.F. Watts: framing myths and portraits
- The framemaker James Wyatt: Turner, Millais & Grinling Gibbons
- Burne-Jones’s picture frames
- A private view of Victorian frames
- Frames, furnishings and woodwork in the Museo del Prado (1818-38)
- Turner’s Picture Frames: Part 3
- Bees in the frame: Part 2 – the Napoleonic bee
- A 19th century British compo frame: a flexibly traditional approach to conservation
- Degas’s frames for dancers and bathers
- Charles Henry Savory: The Practical Carver and Gilder
- A Victorian Obsession…with frames
- Poetry and the frame: May Morning on Magdalen Tower…
- Sotheby’s December sale includes two Pre-Raphaelite paintings from the Leverhulme Collection
- Book review: Martin Bailey, The Sunflowers are Mine: The Story of Van Gogh’s Masterpiece…
- What artists, critics & collectors say about frames: Part 2
- Poetry and the frame: Rossetti’s The Blessed Damozel and its altarpiece setting
- Turner’s Picture Frames: Part 2
- A Royal Frame in the Egyptian Taste…
- Turner’s Picture Frames: Part 1
- Love in the frame: or, Eros gets everywhere…
- A final look at Pre-Raphaelite frames…
- More Pre-Raphaelite frames…
- Pre-Raphaelite frames…
- Restoring a Pre-Raphaelite frame
19th-20th century
- Reframing Munch in the light of his original frames
- Review: ‘John Singer Sargent & the framing of his pictures’
- The place of the frame: Louise Delbarre interviews Isabelle Cahn, co-curator of the exhibition ‘Félix Fénéon (1861-1944)’
- An early C20 Croatian Expressionist frame
- Stefano Bardini: dealer, restorer and collector of frames
- Bees in the frame: Part 2 – the Napoleonic bee
- Artcurial: sale of Symbolist paintings with some original frames, Paris 2017
- How Pre-Raphaelite frames influenced Degas and the Impressionists
- 19th & 20th century Italian framemakers: articles in The Burlington Magazine
- Albert Besnard: Art Nouveau, Symbolist and antique frames
- Lawrence Alma-Tadema: At Home in Antiquity: a review of the exhibition, with a general note on his frames
- What’s in a frame: the borders of Mortimer Menpes
- The frame and the self-portrait, in an exhibition at the State Russian Museum
- Conserving a Stanford White frame
- The borders of commerce: Part 2
20th century
- Frame and picture: reframing Expressionist works on paper in the Selinka Collection
- Never Apart: Frames and Paintings by the artists of Die Brücke
- The Artist and the Framemaker: W. Elmer Schofield and H.W. Taylor
- New England Professional Picture Framers Association, Sunday 2 March 2014
- Giuseppe Arcimboldo: Two Paintings of Flora – an exhibition at the Fundación Juan March, Madrid
- Framing George Bellows: Ashcan artist
21st century
- The Edge of Art: an interview with Ben Henriques
- Reviving Rococo: an interview with master carver Bernhard Lankers by Mark Alexander
- The Phantom Framer
- Wrestling with edges: an interview with Mark Alexander by Jack Wakefield
- Borderlands: an interview with Holly Lane by Steve Shriver
- The Artist’s Frame: an interview with Robert Dukes
- Trahison des clercs: an interview with Peter Goodfellow, artist
Various periods
- Reframing the Image: Historic picture frames & their changing fashions – a video
- Of gilding: An essay on the traditional techniques of gilding, silvering and goldbeating in England
- A remembrance of Thomas Knöll
- Reframing at the National Gallery, London: Part 4
- Frames as passion and profession
- Raphael’s Sistine Madonna and its frames
- Reframing at the National Gallery, London: Part 3
- Orientalist frames: Part 1
- Photography with borders: an interview with Sailko
- Reframing at the National Gallery, London: Part 2
- Reframing at the National Gallery, London: Part 1
- An introduction to frames with covers, shutters and curtains. Part 3: Curtains and covers on secular paintings and looking-glasses
- An introduction to frames with covers, shutters and curtains. Part 2: Curtains on sacred works
- An introduction to frames with covers, shutters and curtains. Part 1: Covers and shutters on sacred works
- Artcurial: sale of antique frames in Paris, September 2021
- Print rooms, prints, and their printed borders
- Artcurial: sale of antique frames in Paris, February 2021
- How we look at art: Frames and framing – a video
- Three sales of antique frames: EVE, Coutau-Bégarie and Artcurial in Paris, September 2020
- An introduction to Irish frames – Part 2: Baroque & Rococo to modern
- Thierry de Maigret: sale of antique frames in Paris, 17 July 2020
- Frames and their paintings: a Polish perspective
- An introduction to Irish frames – Part 1: from early borders to Palladianism
- Artcurial: sale of antique frames in Paris, February 2019
- Sociology and the frame, or The painting’s pimp: a dissertation for the LSE
- Caricatures and cartoons: framing satire and wit
- Artcurial: sale of antique frames in Paris, September 2019
- Wilhelm von Bode: framing the Old Masters in Berlin
- Thierry de Maigret: sale of antique frames in Paris, July 2019
- Trophy Frames
- Artcurial: sale of antique frames in Paris, February 2019
- Norbert Theiss’s frame exhibition and Conzen 15th Antique Frame Auction 2018
- FRAME: Concept, History and Conservation: Symposium 2, Sydney 2019
- Artcurial: sale of antique frames in Paris, September 2018
- The exhibition Regards sur les Cadres, and the frame collection of the Louvre
- An abbreviated history of Italian frames from the 12th to the 20th century
- ‘Histoires de cadres’: frames in the collection of the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen
- Stefano Bardini: dealer, restorer and collector of frames
- Artcurial: sale of antique frames in Paris 2018
- Book review: Hardwick Hall: A great old castle of romance
- Conzen 14th Antique Frame Auction 2017
- The Collection of Pierre Berndt: an auction by Artcurial on 14 November 2017
- The Dictionary of British & Irish Furniture Makers Online: an appeal
- Artcurial: sale of antique frames in Paris 2017
- Artists and the frame: a video
- How artists have used the frame in the past, & how they can use it now
- The Collection of Roberto Lodi: an auction by Pandolfini on 21 April 2016
- Exploring frames in the Royal Collection
- Collection Jacques Goujon: an auction at Hôtel Drouot on 17 February 2016
- On Art and its Margins: the Frame in the Centre: an exhibition at the Dordrechts Museum
- Frames: State of the Art. Part 2: Picture frames in the Royal Danish collections
- Frames and the Internet
- An introduction to Greek Orthodox shrines
- Precious Framing. The painting and its frame: Dialogues – an exhibition at the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
- An introduction to Greek Orthodox iconostases
- Mauritshuis frames: Part 1
- Frames: State of the Art. Part 1: José Ortega y Gasset
- National Gallery frames: an interview with Peter Schade
- Women in picture framing
- Encounter & Confrontation: Contemporary photographs in antique frames – an exhibition at the Museum of Ratingen, Germany
- Sixteen Frames: The frame in Europe over 400 years – an exhibition at Bourne Frames
- What artists, critics & collectors say about frames: Part 1
- Russian frames: an interview with Oksana Lysenko of the Russian Museum, St Petersburg
- A flight of Christmas angels…
- Frames at the Yale Center for British Art
- Antique frames on Impressionist paintings…
- Falmouth Art Gallery, Brian Stewart and a passion for frames…
- This is the beginning of a blog about the world of picture frames…
FRAME ARTICLES BY NATIONALITY
American frames
- Early American frames in the 17th and 18th centuries
- Borderlands: an interview with Holly Lane by Steve Shriver
- The Artist and the Framemaker: W. Elmer Schofield and H.W. Taylor
- Conserving a Stanford White frame
- New England Professional Picture Framers Association, Sunday 2 March 2014
- Framing history in early Princeton
- Framing George Bellows: Ashcan artist
Australian frames
British frames
- Framing the European paintings at The Metropolitan Museum: Part 1
- What artists, critics & collectors say about frames: Part 3
- Of gilding: An essay on the traditional techniques of gilding, silvering and goldbeating in England
- Print rooms, prints, and their printed borders
- Thomas Gainsborough and picture framing
- Olympian frames: Frederic, Lord Leighton
- Victorians in London
- G.F. Watts: framing myths and portraits
- The Edge of Art: an interview with Ben Henriques
- Early American frames in the 17th and 18th centuries
- The framemaker James Wyatt: Turner, Millais & Grinling Gibbons
- Burne-Jones’s picture frames
- A private view of Victorian frames
- Sir John Soane’s Museum frame appeal
- Framing miniatures in the 17th century : The Golden Age of ‘la boîte à portrait’
- Book review: Hardwick Hall: A great old castle of romance
- Framing Renaissance portrait miniatures in Paris and London
- Turner’s Picture Frames: Part 3
- The Dictionary of British & Irish Furniture Makers Online: an appeal
- How Pre-Raphaelite frames influenced Degas and the Impressionists
- Lawrence Alma-Tadema: At Home in Antiquity: a review of the exhibition, with a general note on his frames
- Fitzwilliam Museum: the Russell Frame
- A 19th century British compo frame: a flexibly traditional approach to conservation
- The clue is in the frame: or what a label can reveal
- The Phantom Framer
- Wrestling with edges: an interview with Mark Alexander by Jack Wakefield
- The Despenser Retable: the iconography of a 14th century frame
- The Artist’s Frame: an interview with Robert Dukes
- Trahison des clercs: an interview with Peter Goodfellow, artist
- Henry Bone: framing enamel paintings
- The Artist and the Framemaker: W. Elmer Schofield and H.W. Taylor
- Restoring a Grinling Gibbons frame
- Norwich Castle: the frame of The Paston Treasure
- Charles Henry Savory: The Practical Carver and Gilder
- A Victorian Obsession…with frames
- Book review: William Kent: Designing Georgian Britain, ed. Susan Weber
- Van Dyck, Dobson and their Mannerist frames
- Women in picture framing
- Knole seminar, Monday 17 March 2014
- Poetry and the frame: May Morning on Magdalen Tower…
- Sotheby’s December sale includes two Pre-Raphaelite paintings from the Leverhulme Collection
- Authors in the frame: ‘Reading’ novel frontispieces in the eighteenth century
- Book review: Ham House – 400 years of collecting & patronage, ed. Christopher Rowell…
- What artists, critics & collectors say about frames: Part 2
- Framing history in early Princeton
- Poetry and the frame: Rossetti’s The Blessed Damozel and its altarpiece setting
- Carving & gilding a British Rococo frame
- Turner’s Picture Frames: Part 2
- A Royal Frame in the Egyptian Taste…
- Turner’s Picture Frames: Part 1
- Love in the frame: or, Eros gets everywhere…
- A final look at Pre-Raphaelite frames…
- More Pre-Raphaelite frames…
- Hogarth’s Framemaker
- Pre-Raphaelite frames…
- Restoring a Pre-Raphaelite frame
- The frame as a vehicle for symbol and significance
- Falmouth Art Gallery, Brian Stewart and a passion for frames…
Croatian frames
French frames
- Jacques-Louis David’s frames: Revolution, Empire and beyond
- Framing the European paintings at The Metropolitan Museum: Part 1
- What artists, critics & collectors say about frames: Part 3
- The Choiseul Box: a new jewel of miniature painting in the Musée du Louvre
- Artcurial: ‘Cent portraits pour un siècle’: a sale of 18th century portraits
- Serge Roche: Cadres français et étrangers du XVe siècle au XVIIIe siècle – Part 2
- The oval frame in 18th century France
- Serge Roche: Cadres français et étrangers du XVe siècle au XVIIIe siècle – Part 1
- The place of the frame: Louise Delbarre interviews Isabelle Cahn, co-curator of the exhibition ‘Félix Fénéon (1861-1944)’
- The Christmas star
- Framing the Louvre’s pastels
- The exhibition Regards sur les Cadres, and the frame collection of the Louvre
- ‘Histoires de cadres’: frames in the collection of the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen
- Framing miniatures in the 17th century : The Golden Age of ‘la boîte à portrait’
- Framing Renaissance portrait miniatures in Paris and London
- Bees in the frame: Part 2 – the Napoleonic bee
- How Pre-Raphaelite frames influenced Degas and the Impressionists
- 18th century French frames and their ornamentation
- Albert Besnard: Art Nouveau, Symbolist and antique frames
- A signed frame by Jean Chérin
- Drawings for frames by Jean-Charles Delafosse (1734-89)
- Degas’s frames for dancers and bathers
- The clue is in the frame: or what a label can reveal
- Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun: Part II: her pastel frames, 1772-1789
- Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun: Part I: a review of the 2015-2016 exhibition, with a general note on some frames
- Reframing Raphael: the Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione
- Antique frames on Impressionist paintings…
German frames
- Frame and picture: reframing Expressionist works on paper in the Selinka Collection
- Never Apart: Frames and Paintings by the artists of Die Brücke
- Reviving Rococo: an interview with master carver Bernhard Lankers by Mark Alexander
- National Gallery, London: new Mannerist frames
- A flight of Christmas angels…
Greek frames
Irish frames
- Print rooms, prints, and their printed borders
- An introduction to Irish frames – Part 2: Baroque & Rococo to modern
- An introduction to Irish frames – Part 1: from early borders to Palladianism
Italian frames
- Framing the European paintings at The Metropolitan Museum: Part 1
- An intriguing Venetian trophy frame, linked to the Battle of Lepanto
- An introduction to frames with covers, shutters and curtains: Part 4: The drama of Leonardo Scaglia’s altarpieces
- Science, gardens and the Baroque frame
- Framing the miraculous: the devotional functions of perspective in Italian Renaissance tabernacle design
- Pandolfini: sale including antique frames in Florence, 16 November 2022
- Presenting the legend: the many frames of Raphael
- Framing relief sculptures
- Giovanni Segantini’s frames
- Book review: Frame work: honour and ornament in Italian Renaissance art
- Il Volterrano and a Baroque Florentine frame: part of a thematic programme?
- Bonzanigo and the micro-sculptural frame
- Print rooms, prints, and their printed borders
- The tondo frame in Renaissance Florence: a round-up
- Fruit, flowers, foliage: the symbolism of Renaissance frames
- Framing in the Roman Era
- Framing Titian’s poesie
- Corneille de Lyon: French portraits, Venetian frames, Islamic ornament
- National Gallery, London: reframing Mantegna
- National Gallery, London: reframing Bellini
- An abbreviated history of Italian frames from the 12th to the 20th century
- The enigma of an Italian Baroque leaf frame
- Stefano Bardini: dealer, restorer and collector of frames
- Reasons for reframing: focusing on Titian
- Bees in the frame: Part 1 – the Barberini bee
- 19th & 20th century Italian framemakers: articles in The Burlington Magazine
- National Gallery, London: The reframing of Lazarus
- Dulwich Picture Gallery, London: reframing Allori
- Painters & woodcarvers in early Renaissance Italy
- Strigillated frames: the ripples of Mannerism
- The rise of the all’antica altarpiece frame
- Frames in Focus: Sansovino Frames – an exhibition at the National Gallery, London
- National Gallery, London: reframing Mantegna’s grisailles
- Reframing the Renaissance: Museums and Madonnas
- National Gallery frame appeal…
- National Gallery, London: a Venetian pastiglia frame
- National Gallery, London: new Mannerist frames
- Girolamo da Santacroce’s polyptych in Košljun, Croatia
- Reframing Raphael: the Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione
- Giuseppe Arcimboldo: Two Paintings of Flora – an exhibition at the Fundación Juan March, Madrid
Japanese frames
Netherlandish frames
- Framing the European paintings at The Metropolitan Museum: Part 1
- Nicolaes Maes: original frames, French fashions, metal appliqués
- Kwab: The Auricular in Amsterdam
- On Art and its Margins: the Frame in the Centre: an exhibition at the Dordrechts Museum
- Recreating an Auricular frame
- Mauritshuis frames: Part II: trophy frames
- Mauritshuis frames: Part 1
Orientalist frames
- Orientalist frames: Part 1
- Corneille de Lyon: French portraits, Venetian frames, Islamic ornament
- What’s in a frame: the borders of Mortimer Menpes
Polish frames
Portuguese frames
- Cataloguing Baroque azulejo frames: a project in progress
- Frame simulations in 18th century Portuguese azulejos
Russian frames
- The frame and the self-portrait, in an exhibition at the State Russian Museum
- Precious Framing. The painting and its frame: Dialogues – an exhibition at the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
- Russian frames: an interview with Oksana Lysenko of the Russian Museum, St Petersburg
Scandinavian frames
- Reframing Munch in the light of his original frames
- Artists’ frames in 19th century Denmark
- The ideal craftsman: the Danish court gilder Peder Christian Damborg (1801-65)
- Frames: State of the Art. Part 3: Royal frames
- Frames: State of the Art. Part 2: Picture frames in the Royal Danish collections
Spanish frames
- Setdart: sale of an important private collection of frames in Madrid, by 28 February 2023
- Completing the Image: Baroque Frames from the collection of Philippe Ávila
- An introduction to Spanish Baroque frames in the Golden Age
- Frames, furnishings and woodwork in the Museo del Prado (1818-38)
Ukrainian frames
Frames of various nationalities
- Reframing the Image: Historic picture frames & their changing fashions – a video
- A remembrance of Thomas Knöll
- Science, gardens and the Baroque frame
- Reframing at the National Gallery, London: Part 4
- Frames in paintings: Part 1 – Gothic, Renaissance and Mannerist
- Frames as passion and profession
- Reframing at the National Gallery, London: Part 3
- Photography with borders: an interview with Sailko
- Reframing at the National Gallery, London: Part 2
- Reframing at the National Gallery, London: Part 1
- An introduction to frames with covers, shutters and curtains. Part 3: Curtains and covers on secular paintings and looking-glasses
- An introduction to frames with covers, shutters and curtains. Part 2: Curtains on sacred works
- An introduction to frames with covers, shutters and curtains. Part 1: Covers and shutters on sacred works
- Artcurial: sale of antique frames in Paris, September 2021
- Framing the drawing
- Artcurial: sale of antique frames in Paris, February 2021
- How we look at art: Frames and framing – a video
- Serge Roche: Cadres français et étrangers du XVe siècle au XVIIIe siècle – Part 1
- Three sales of antique frames: EVE, Coutau-Bégarie and Artcurial in Paris, September 2020
- Thierry de Maigret: sale of antique frames in Paris, 17 July 2020
- Review: ‘John Singer Sargent & the framing of his pictures’
- Frames and their paintings: a Polish perspective
- Completing the Image: Baroque Frames from the collection of Philippe Ávila
- Artcurial: sale of antique frames in Paris, February 2019
- Sociology and the frame, or The painting’s pimp: a dissertation for the LSE
- Caricatures and cartoons: framing satire and wit
- Artcurial: sale of antique frames in Paris, September 2019
- Wilhelm von Bode: framing the Old Masters in Berlin
- Thierry de Maigret: sale of antique frames in Paris, July 2019
- Trophy Frames
- Artcurial: sale of antique frames in Paris, February 2019
- Norbert Theiss’s frame exhibition and Conzen 15th Antique Frame Auction 2018
- Framing the Louvre’s pastels
- FRAME: Concept, History and Conservation: Symposium 2, Sydney 2019
- Artcurial: sale of antique frames in Paris, September 2018
- The exhibition Regards sur les Cadres, and the frame collection of the Louvre
- ‘Histoires de cadres’: frames in the collection of the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen
- Artcurial: sale of antique frames in Paris 2018
- Book review: Hardwick Hall: A great old castle of romance
- Conzen 14th Antique Frame Auction 2017
- The Collection of Pierre Berndt: an auction by Artcurial on 14 November 2017
- Artcurial: sale of Symbolist paintings with some original frames, Paris 2017
- Artcurial: sale of antique frames in Paris 2017
- Artists and the frame: a video
- How artists have used the frame in the past, & how they can use it now
- The website of the Auricular Style: Frames project
- The Collection of Roberto Lodi: an auction by Pandolfini on 21 April 2016
- The Baroque Galleries at the V & A: Frames
- Exploring frames in the Royal Collection
- Collection Jacques Goujon: an auction at Hôtel Drouot on 17 February 2016
- Frames: State of the Art. Part 2: Picture frames in the Royal Danish collections
- Frames and the Internet
- Frames: State of the Art. Part 1: José Ortega y Gasset
- The borders of commerce: Part 2
- The borders of commerce: Part 1
- National Gallery frames: an interview with Peter Schade
- Encounter & Confrontation: Contemporary photographs in antique frames – an exhibition at the Museum of Ratingen, Germany
- Sixteen Frames: The frame in Europe over 400 years – an exhibition at Bourne Frames
- Frames at the Yale Center for British Art
- This is the beginning of a blog about the world of picture frames…
ARTISTS and their FRAMES
- Jacques-Louis David’s frames: Revolution, Empire and beyond
- Raphael’s Sistine Madonna and its frames
- Presenting the legend: the many frames of Raphael
- Giovanni Segantini’s frames
- Reframing Munch in the light of his original frames
- Il Volterrano and a Baroque Florentine frame: part of a thematic programme?
- Thomas Gainsborough and picture framing
- Olympian frames: Frederic, Lord Leighton
- Nicolaes Maes: original frames, French fashions, metal appliqués
- Review: ‘John Singer Sargent & the framing of his pictures’
- G.F. Watts: framing myths and portraits
- Framing Titian’s poesie
- The Edge of Art: an interview with Ben Henriques
- Burne-Jones’s picture frames
- Corneille de Lyon: French portraits, Venetian frames, Islamic ornament
- National Gallery, London: reframing Mantegna
- National Gallery, London: reframing Bellini
- Reasons for reframing: focusing on Titian
- Turner’s Picture Frames: Part 3
- Albert Besnard: Art Nouveau, Symbolist and antique frames
- Lawrence Alma-Tadema: At Home in Antiquity: a review of the exhibition, with a general note on his frames
- What’s in a frame: the borders of Mortimer Menpes
- Degas’s frames for dancers and bathers
- Wrestling with edges: an interview with Mark Alexander by Jack Wakefield
- Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun: Part II: her pastel frames, 1772-1789
- Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun: Part I: a review of the 2015-2016 exhibition, with a general note on some frames
- Borderlands: an interview with Holly Lane by Steve Shriver
- Liotard: a review of the RA exhibition, with a general note on his frames
- The Artist’s Frame: an interview with Robert Dukes
- Trahison des clercs: an interview with Peter Goodfellow, artist
- Henry Bone: framing enamel paintings
- The Artist and the Framemaker: W. Elmer Schofield and H.W. Taylor
- Girolamo da Santacroce’s polyptych in Košljun, Croatia
- Van Dyck, Dobson and their Mannerist frames
- Reframing Raphael: the Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione
- Giuseppe Arcimboldo: Two Paintings of Flora – an exhibition at the Fundación Juan March, Madrid
- Poetry and the frame: May Morning on Magdalen Tower…
- Book review: Martin Bailey, The Sunflowers are Mine: The Story of Van Gogh’s Masterpiece…
- What artists, critics & collectors say about frames: Part 2
- What artists, critics & collectors say about frames: Part 1
- Framing George Bellows: Ashcan artist
- Poetry and the frame: Rossetti’s The Blessed Damozel and its altarpiece setting
- Turner’s Picture Frames: Part 2
- Turner’s Picture Frames: Part 1
- Hogarth’s Framemaker
EVENTS
- Many Lives: Picture Frames in Context
- A remembrance of Thomas Knöll
- Review of the conference ‘Rococo across borders: designers & makers’
- How we look at art: Frames and framing – a video
- Completing the Image: Baroque Frames from the collection of Philippe Ávila
- Never Apart: Frames and Paintings by the artists of Die Brücke
- Picture – frame – image: a conference to be held in November 2019
- FRAME: Concept, History and Conservation: Symposium 2, Sydney 2019
- AICCM – FRAME: Concept, History and Conservation – a symposium; 2016
- Auricular Style: Frames – a conference; 2016
- New England Professional Picture Framers Association, Sunday 2 March 2014
- Knole seminar, Monday 17 March 2014
- Conference: The Gilding & Decorative Surfaces Group, Icon (London) 2013
INTERVIEWS
- Photography with borders: an interview with Sailko
- The place of the frame: Louise Delbarre interviews Isabelle Cahn, co-curator of the exhibition ‘Félix Fénéon (1861-1944)’
- The Edge of Art: an interview with Ben Henriques
- Reviving Rococo: an interview with master carver Bernhard Lankers by Mark Alexander
- Wrestling with edges: an interview with Mark Alexander by Jack Wakefield
- Borderlands: an interview with Holly Lane by Steve Shriver
- The Artist’s Frame: an interview with Robert Dukes
- Trahison des clercs: an interview with Peter Goodfellow, artist
- National Gallery frames: an interview with Peter Schade
- Russian frames: an interview with Oksana Lysenko of the Russian Museum, St Petersburg
NATIONAL GALLERY
- Reframing at the National Gallery, London: Part 4
- Reframing at the National Gallery, London: Part 3
- Reframing at the National Gallery, London: Part 2
- Reframing at the National Gallery, London: Part 1
- Framing Titian’s poesie
- National Gallery, London: reframing Mantegna
- National Gallery, London: reframing Bellini
- Reasons for reframing: focusing on Titian
- National Gallery, London: The reframing of Lazarus
- Frames in Focus: Sansovino Frames – an exhibition at the National Gallery, London
- National Gallery, London: reframing Mantegna’s grisailles
- National Gallery frame appeal…
- National Gallery, London: a Venetian pastiglia frame
- National Gallery, London: new Mannerist frames
- National Gallery frames: an interview with Peter Schade
REVIEWS
- Review of the conference ‘Rococo across borders: designers & makers’
- Book review: Frame work: honour and ornament in Italian Renaissance art
- A private view of Victorian frames
- The exhibition Regards sur les Cadres, and the frame collection of the Louvre
- Kwab: The Auricular in Amsterdam
- Book review: Hardwick Hall: A great old castle of romance
- Turner’s Picture Frames: Part 3
- Lawrence Alma-Tadema: At Home in Antiquity: a review of the exhibition, with a general note on his frames
- The frame and the self-portrait, in an exhibition at the State Russian Museum
- Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun: Part II: her pastel frames, 1772-1789
- Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun: Part I: a review of the 2015-2016 exhibition, with a general note on some frames
- Liotard: a review of the RA exhibition, with a general note on his frames
- On Art and its Margins: the Frame in the Centre: an exhibition at the Dordrechts Museum
- Frames in Focus: Sansovino Frames – an exhibition at the National Gallery, London
- Precious Framing. The painting and its frame: Dialogues – an exhibition at the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
- A Victorian Obsession…with frames
- Book review: William Kent: Designing Georgian Britain, ed. Susan Weber
- Book review: Martin Bailey, The Sunflowers are Mine: The Story of Van Gogh’s Masterpiece…
- Book review: Ham House – 400 years of collecting & patronage, ed. Christopher Rowell…
SALES of ANTIQUE FRAMES
- Frames from the collection of the Richard Green Gallery: Part II
- Thierry de Maigret: sale of antique frames in Paris, 9 February 2024
- Van Ham: sale of antique frames in Cologne, November 2023
- Frames from the collection of the Richard Green Gallery: Part I
- Setdart: sale of an important private collection of frames in Madrid, by 28 February 2023
- Thierry de Maigret: sale of antique frames in Paris, 19 January 2023
- Pandolfini: sale including antique frames in Florence, 16 November 2022
- Parker Fine Art Auctions: sale including antique frames on 6th October 2022
- Thierry de Maigret: sale of antique frames in Paris, 24 February 2022
- Artcurial: ‘Cent portraits pour un siècle’: a sale of 18th century portraits
- Artcurial: sale of antique frames in Paris, September 2021
- Artcurial: sale of antique frames in Paris, February 2021
- Victorians in London
- Three sales of antique frames: EVE, Coutau-Bégarie and Artcurial in Paris, September 2020
- Thierry de Maigret: sale of antique frames in Paris, 17 July 2020
- Artcurial: sale of antique frames in Paris, February 2019
- Thierry de Maigret: sale of antique frames in Paris, 29-30 October 2019
- Artcurial: sale of antique frames in Paris, September 2019
- Thierry de Maigret: sale of antique frames in Paris, July 2019
- Artcurial: sale of antique frames in Paris, February 2019
- Norbert Theiss’s frame exhibition and Conzen 15th Antique Frame Auction 2018
- Artcurial: sale of antique frames in Paris, September 2018
- Artcurial: sale of antique frames in Paris 2018
- Conzen 14th Antique Frame Auction 2017
- The Collection of Pierre Berndt: an auction by Artcurial on 14 November 2017
- Artcurial: sale of Symbolist paintings with some original frames, Paris 2017
- Two sales of antique frames: EVE in Paris & Pandolfini in Florence, March 2017
- Artcurial: sale of antique frames in Paris 2017
- Conzen 13th Antique Frame Auction 2016
- Auctionata: sale of antique frames in Berlin 2016
- The Collection of Roberto Lodi: an auction by Pandolfini on 21 April 2016
- Collection Jacques Goujon: an auction at Hôtel Drouot on 17 February 2016
- Conzen 12th Antique Frame Auction 2015
- Conzen 11th Antique Frame Auction 2014
- Sixteen Frames: The frame in Europe over 400 years – an exhibition at Bourne Frames
- Conzen 10th Antique Frame Auction 2013
- Sotheby’s, London: a Collection of Fine Picture Frames…
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What an unbelievable resource! I am an artist and frames have become an obsession as they have such a big effect on the work they provide a home for. Thank you.
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Thank you for taking the time to leave such a kind comment. I’m so glad that you’ve enjoyed some of the frames here!
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Do you have any information about a frame invented by John Edward Robinson in the early 1800s? Likely in England. Thanks!
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You will have to give me a few more clues… what sort of frame? on what kind of painting? Do you have a framemaker’s label with Robinson’s details on it? The only Robinson I know for that time in England is mentioned in the records of Criswick & Ryan: see the Directory of British Picture Framemakers on the NPG website [ http://www.npg.org.uk/research/conservation/directory-of-british-framemakers/c.php#CR ]; this is the Samuel Robinson whose stock was acquired by C & R in 1836. Possibly J E Robinson was father or brother of Samuel?
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