Contributors

Adair, William, owner of Gold Leaf Studios, framemaker, conservator of gilded antiques, Washington:
The miracle of Cortemaggiore: a 500-year-old frame returns home

Alexander, Mark, British-born artist working in Berlin:
Reviving Rococo: an interview with master carver Bernhard Lankers

Allen, Zoë, Senior Gilded Furniture & Frames Conservator at the V & A:
The Baroque Galleries at the V & A: Frames

Andronikos,Thanasis, art historian, owner of Heartbeat Gallery, Sheffield:
An introduction to Greek Orthodox shrines
An introduction to Greek Orthodox iconostases

Avila, Philippe, independent art historian, conservator & lecturer, New York:
A Nanban painting & its frame, commissioned by the Jesuits in the Age of Exploration
An introduction to Spanish Baroque frames in the Golden Age

Baija, Hubert, former senior conservator of frames at the Rijksmusem and frame consultant at the Art Gallery of Ontario; present lecturer at Beloit College, Wisconsin:
Book review: Omkadered/Framed

Baughan, Elizabeth, gilder & conservator, and Kusserow, Karl, John Wilmerding Curator of American Art, Princeton University:
Framing history in early Princeton

Bencard, Mogens, Chief Curator and then Director of the Royal Danish Collections from 1980-98:
Frames: State of the Art. Part 3: Royal frames

Bisacca, George, Senior Conservator, Metropolitan Museum of Art:
The rise of the all’antica altarpiece frame

Bissinger, Caleb, writer and producer based in Los Angeles:
Sociology and the frame, or The painting’s pimp: a dissertation for the LSE

Bjerre, Henrik, former Head Conservator & Head of the Jørn Rubow Centre for Conservation at the Statens Museum  for Kunst:
Frames: State of the Art. Part 2: Picture frames in the Royal Danish collections

Burzio, Luca, dealer in fine art and antiques:
Bonzanigo and the micro-sculptural frame

Buvelot, Quentin, Senior Curator , Mauritshuis, The Hague:
Mauritshuis frames: Part 1

Cachaud, Céline, PhD candidate, University of Geneva; project manager, Musée du Louvre:
Framing Renaissance portrait miniatures in Paris and London
Framing miniatures in the 17th century : The Golden Age of ‘la boîte à portrait’
The Choiseul Box: a new jewel of miniature painting in the Musée du Louvre

Cahn, Isabelle, Chief Curator of Paintings at the Musée d’Orsay:
The place of the frame: Louise Delbarre interviews Isabelle Cahn, co-curator of the exhibition ‘Félix Fénéon (1861-1944)’

Carvalho, Rosário Salema de, researcher & executive coordinator, Az – Rede de Investigação em Azulejo / Azulejo Research Network: Universidade de Lisboa
Frame simulations in 18th century Portuguese azulejos
Cataloguing Baroque azulejo frames: a project in progress

Castillo Álvarez, Silvia, art historian & researcher into the decorative arts of Spain:
Frames, furnishings and woodwork in the Museo del Prado (1818-38)

Cecchi, Alessandro, art historian, author; Director of the Casa Buonarroti Foundation:
The tondo frame in Renaissance Florence

Christiansen, Keith, Curator Emeritus at The Metropolitan Museum:
Framing the European paintings at The Metropolitan Museum: Part 1
Framing the European paintings at The Metropolitan Museum: Part 2
Framing the European paintings at The Metropolitan Museum: Part 3
Framing the European paintings at The Metropolitan Museum: Part 4

Church, James,  architect and art historian, London:
The Artist and the Framemaker: W. Elmer Schofield and H.W. Taylor

Clarke, Alison, PhD candidate, University of Liverpool and the National Gallery, London:
Stefano Bardini: dealer, restorer and collector of frames

Coles, Christopher, provenance researcher, specialising in 18th century English furniture:
An intriguing Venetian trophy frame, linked to the Battle of Lepanto

Coninck, Arnaud, art historian; social network manager, Musée du Louvre:
Albert Besnard: Art Nouveau, Symbolist and antique frames

Davies, Paul, Professor Emeritus, taught history of architecture at the University of Reading and continues to research the subject:
Framing the miraculous: the devotional functions of perspective in Italian Renaissance tabernacle design

Delbarre, Louise, curator at the Conservation des oeuvres d’art religieuses et civiles (COARC) of the city of Paris:
‘Histoires de cadres’: frames in the collection of the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen
The exhibition Regards sur les Cadres, and the frame collection of the Louvre
The place of the frame: Louise Delbarre interviews Isabelle Cahn, co-curator of the exhibition ‘Félix Fénéon (1861-1944)’

Döhring, Marei, PhD Fellow at the University of Vienna, specializing in early 20th-century artist frames:
Edvard Munch: ‘They forbid me to make my own frames’

Eipper, Paul-Bernhard, Head of Conservation Unit, Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz; Assoc.-Prof, Academy of Fine Arts & Design, Bratislava :
Giulio Licinio’s Pietà with mourning angels reunited with its frame

Florensa, Gema de Cambra, restorer of frames and paintings at LAB-ART (Barcelona):
17th-18th century silvered & lacquered frames from Barcelona

Gilbert, Creighton (1924-2011), Cornell and Yale professor of the Italian Renaissance and Michelangelo, US:
Painters & woodcarvers in early Renaissance Italy

Gramotnev, Helen, art historian, curator & blogger:
Degas’s frames for dancers and bathers

Gregory, Michael, head of the framemakers and frame dealers, Arnold Wiggins & Sons, London:
Of gilding

Hänsch, Johanna, writer, filmmaker; Editor & Social Media Manager at Werner Murrer Rahmen:
Reframing Munch in the light of his original frames

Hargraves, Matthew, Associate Curator for Collections Research and Head of Collections Information and Access, Yale Center for British Art:
Frames at the Yale Center for British Art

Harmsen, Olga, specialist in Art Nouveau, with an interior decorating company and blog about the style:
Book review: Omkaderd/ Framed

Jeffares, Neil, independent art historian specializing in 18th century pastels:
Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun: Part II: her pastel frames, 1772-1789
Framing the Louvre’s pastels

Johnson, Alastair, Frame Conservator, Tate, London:
Restoring a Pre-Raphaelite frame

Kaźmierczak, Maciej, conservator and art historian:
Frames and their paintings: a Polish perspective

Knöll, Robert, Managing Director of Knöll Rahmen, Basel:
A remembrance of Thomas Knöll

Knox, Tim, FSA, Director and Marlay Curator of the Fitzwilliam Museum:
Fitzwilliam Museum: frame appeal

Lemke-Mahdavi, Tanja, communication designer; Antike Rahmen, Berlin:
Framing emptiness: an exhibition of inscribed Renaissance frames

Lenders, Anne, Assistant Curator, Mauritshuis, The Hague:
Mauritshuis frames: Part II: trophy frames

Linnemann, Jannie Henriette, Art historian, artist and architect:
The ideal craftsman: the Danish court gilder Peder Christian Damborg (1801-65)

Lysenko, Oksana, Senior Research Fellow at the State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan:
Russian frames: an interview with Oksana Lysenko of the Russian Museum, St Petersburg
Precious Framing. The painting and its frame: Dialogues – an exhibition at the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Frames as passion and profession

Machado, Ana Raquel, Art History researcher, Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa:
Frame simulations in 18th century Portuguese azulejos

Mallo, Peter, Artist, educator, scholar, and former chief of Frame Design and Production, Guggenheim New York:
Artists’ frames in pâte coulante: history, design, and method

Manser, Marc. O, independent researcher into art & art history; background in film and photography:
An introduction to frames with covers, shutters and curtains: Part 4: The drama of Leonardo Scaglia’s altarpieces

Michel, Christian, Professor of Art History at the Université de Lausanne:
The oval frame in 18th century France

Mitchell, Paul, frame historian & consultant, Paul Mitchell Ltd:
A signed frame by Jean Chérin
The picture frames of Wright of Derby

Monbeig Goguel, Catherine, Emeritus Director of Research, CNRS; ex-Dépt. des arts graphiques, Musée du Louvre
Framing the drawing

Murrer, Werner, framemaker and frame historian, Werner Murrer Rahmen, Munich,
with Marianne Saal, art historian:
Frame and picture: reframing Expressionist works on paper in the Selinka Collection
with Johanna Hänsch, art historian:
Reframing Munch in the light of his original frames
with Marianne Saal, art historian:
Raphael’s Sistine Madonna and its frames

Nikolskaya, Svetlana, Associate Professor at the Institute of Design and Art, Nizhny Novgorod State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering (NNGASU:
Pastiglia in Italian Renaissance cassoni of the 14th-16th centuries

Ortega y Gasset, José, via Henrik Berre, Head Conservator, ret’d, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen:
Frames: State of the Art. Part 1: José Ortega y Gasset

Payne, John, Senior Conservator of Paintings, National Gallery of Victoria:
What’s in a frame: the borders of Mortimer Menpes

Penušliski, Kiril, art historian:
Girolamo da Santacroce’s polyptych in Košljun, Croatia

Pons, Bruno (1954-1995), art historian, author, doctor of endocrinology:
18th century French frames & their ornamentation

Robert, Maarten, sculptor and woodcarver:
Recreating an Auricular frame

Savage, Michael, Grumpy Art Historian:
Frames in Focus: Sansovino Frames: exhibition at the National Gallery, London

Schade, Peter, Head of Framing, National Gallery, London:
National Gallery frames: an interview with Peter Schade
Wilhelm von Bode: framing the Old Masters in Berlin
How we look at art: Frames and framing – a video (with Matthew Reeves)
Reframing at the National Gallery, London: Part 1
Reframing at the National Gallery, London: Part 2
Presenting the legend: the many frames of Raphael
Reframing at the National Gallery, London: Part 3
Reframing at the National Gallery, London: Part 4
A remembrance of Thomas Knöll

Schulz, Katrina, curator, Brücke Museum, Berlin:
Never Apart: Frames and Paintings by the artists of Die Brücke

Searle, Mark, frames & furniture conservator at Knole House (National Trust):
A 19th century British compo frame: a flexibly traditional approach to conservation

Shannon, Tatiana, post-graduate student, Smith College, University of Massachusetts:
Conserving a Stanford White frame

Shepherd, Lynn, author:
The frame as a vehicle for symbol and significance
Authors in the frame: ‘Reading’ novel frontispieces in the eighteenth century

Shriver, Steve, artist and historian of ornament:
Borderlands: an interview with Holly Lane
Framing in the Roman era

Simon, Jacob, Research Fellow, National Portrait Gallery, London:
Hogarth’s Framemaker
Women in picture framing
Thomas Gainsborough and picture framing
The gloriously ornamental frames in the Piccolomini Spannocchi collection
John Constable and picture frames

Slight, Jon, Assistant Conservator: Frames & Furniture at the Wallace Collection, London:
Liotard: a review of the Royal Academy exhibition

Smeaton, Suzanne, independent picture frame historian, at Michael Rosenfield Gallery, New York:
Framing George Bellows: Ashcan artist
Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun: Part I: a review of the 2015-2016 exhibition, with a general note on some frames

Tamis, Dorien, freelance art historian and journalist, the Netherlands:
On Art and its Margins: the Frame in the Centre: an exhibition at the Dordrechts Museum
Lawrence Alma-Tadema: At Home in Antiquity: a review of the exhibition, with a general note on his frames
Figurative frames in the Low Countries in the 16th and 17th centuries

Thage, Jacob, director of the Museum Jorn, Silkeborg (formerly Silkeborg Kunstmuseum):
Artists’ frames in 19th century Denmark

Thistlewood, Jevon, Paintings Conservator, Ashmolean Museum:
Restoring a Grinling Gibbons frame

Van ‘t Klooster, Maarten,  freelance art historian:
Kwab: The Auricular in Amsterdam
Corneille de Lyon: French portraits, Venetian frames, Islamic ornament

Wakefield, Jack, art dealer, consultant & journalist:
Wrestling with edges: an interview with Mark Alexander

Welter, Volker M., Professor of the History of Architecture, University of California, Santa Barbara:
Frameless art, boundless Modernism

White, Katie, New York-based writer and editor for Artnet News:
Bordercore: Why frames became the new frontier in contemporary art

Williams, Donna, Access & Interpretation Manager, Falmouth Art Gallery, Cornwall, and Richards, Kate, author and editor:
Falmouth Art Gallery, Brian Stewart and a passion for frames…

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POETS who have contributed their work

Bennett, Jim, managing editor of The Poetry Kit (online):
‘frame builder‘
‘the frame‘

Doyle, Sarah, Poet in Residence at the Pre-Raphaelite Society:
‘The Blessed Damozel‘
‘May-song‘
‘‘The last watch of Hero’‘

McCarthy, Patricia, Editor of Agenda, winner of the 2012 National Poetry Competition:
‘The Blessed Damozel: a poem in two voices‘