Framed crucifixes. Part 2: Tenth to sixteenth century

Introduction This is the second article on the minor but important category of framed sculptural domestic crucifixes and crucifixion scenes, which generated in Italy, for instance, powerfully affecting small altarpieces like the carved boxwood and walnut example featured in Part 1, and blossomed in an extraordinary diversity of crucifixes in every available medium from the 10th century onwards. Andrea di Piero Ferrucci (1465-1526), monumental white & red marble altarpiece (

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Decoration, portal, symbol: artists’ frames, 19th-early 21st century

  Oksana Lysenko In the field of decorative art, picture frames occupy a special niche due to their primary purpose - to complement or embellish a painting. Frames have served this rôle since ancient times. In the 17th century, the Dutch poet, scientist and composer Constantijn Huygens wrote: '...an Ebony frame can enrich a poor canvas, and make it look or sell as well as a good one.' …

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Frames for drawings in Roman collections: A case study

by Adriano Amendola This paper was first published in the Getty Research Journal, no 4, 2012, and is republished here with the permission of the Getty Research Institute. It makes use of a wealth of digitized documentary material in the Getty Research Institute's Provenance Index Database in order to investigate a little-known aspect of the display of Roman collections in the 17th and 18th centuries: namely, the typology and decorative function of the frames chosen for drawings.

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George Stubbs and his frames

 This article began as a much shorter essay in Judy Egerton's catalogue raisonné, George Stubbs, painter, Yale, 2007, and is published here to coincide with a small exhibition on Stubbs in the National Gallery (until 31 May 2026). It is dedicated to Sophie, horse whisperer. Stubbs was lucky in the patronage of some of the wealthiest men in 18th century England, who could afford not only to commission large and expensive paintings, but to frame them in a style appropriate to their subject and setting.

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Images of frames in paintings from The National Museum in Warsaw

by Monika Rdzanek-Solecka This article began life as a presentation, 'Images of frames in paintings from The National Museum in Warsaw (Poland) as a source of information about historical framing styles', given at the Hobart frame symposium, which was held from 16th-18th February 2026 in Tasmania, Australia: FRAME: Concept, History and Conservation: Symposium 3. Wojciech Stattler (1800-75), Portrait of Alfred Potocki and Adam Potocki,

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Hobart Frame Symposium Report

 FRAME: Concept, History & Conservation: Symposium 3 was held from 16th-18th February 2026 at the Theatre Royal in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia’s southernmost capital city. This was the third in a series of frame symposia organised in Australia, following those held in Melbourne in 2016 and Sydney in 2019, both under the auspices of the Australian Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Material.

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Hobart Frame Symposium Report

 FRAME: Concept, History & Conservation: Symposium 3 was held from 16th-18th February 2026 at the Theatre Royal in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia’s southernmost capital city. This was the third in a series of frame symposia organised in Australia, following those held in Melbourne in 2016 and Sydney in 2019, both under the auspices of the Australian Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Material.

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Frame conservator/ Rammekonservator

The new National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design opened on 11th June 2022 is the largest art museum in the Nordic countries. The National Museum’s mandate is to develop, conserve, research, mak...

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Cambi d’Aste, Genoa: Sale of antique frames on Wednesday 15th April 2026

A large and varied sale of 358 lots of frames, this will be held at 22 via San Marco, Genoa, on Wednesday 15 April 2026, from 10.00 am to 6.00 pm local time. Viewing is from 10-14 April. This review offers a a very small glimpse of what is on offer; see the online catalogue for the whole collection. Note that in the catalogue the dimensions aren’t consistently given as height before width, although the frames below have their measurements in the right order as far as is possible to determine.

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Book review: Omkaderd/ Framed

Here is a review of a recently published book on frames by Maarten van 't Klooster. Or, rather, here are three reviews of the same book - one by a layperson (at whom the work is primarily aimed), sandwiched between two by a frame specialist (one in English and one in Dutch, since that's the language of the book). With luck, it will be successful enough to be published in an English translation, and possibly in other languages - because the more books we have to explain to the uninitiated how beautiful, fascinating and important frames are, the better-served every painting and every museum visitor will be.

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Digital currency donations have been turned into sterling to make them much less easy to track, sources say

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