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‘Drawings’ section added to The Frame Blog The Frame Blog now has a new section (accessible, like the Archives, Contributors, etc., from the header, above), which contains drawings and designs for frames, organized by nationality within century. These are taken mainly from the drawings departments…

I feel we’ve pointed much energy at trying to decide whether Trump is Caligula or Nero, whereas I think he is probably Idi Amin. Though with much worse tailoring.

@cerishields.bsky.social and @nguthrie.bsky.social - Thank you so much for reposting the Drawings section's birth on The Frame Blog @theframeblog.bsky.social ; I have very few followers since coming here, and every bit of support helps so much and is appreciated...🙂 🙂

A lot of pages are now live in the 'Drawings' section of The Frame Blog, accessible from the header. The C15 to halfway thro' the C18 are available; some have a lot more drawings on them than others, but I shall continue adding drawings whenever I find them... theframeblog.com/drawings-and...

Sotheby’s: Pauline Karpidas: a sale of surrealist works A sale to be held by Sotheby's, London, on 17 & 18 September 2025 Pauline Karpidas assembled an extraordinary collection of 20th-21st century paintings, sculpture and furniture, some of it commissioned directly from the artists or their…

Rigoberto A. González, “Refugees Crossing the Border Wall into South Texas” (2020)

Two more conference on frames and frame-related ornament hoving into view: Pastiglia Decoration in Kazan, Tartarstan, November 2025, & Frame Symposium 3 in Hobart, Tasmania, February 2026. Participate physically or online; call for papers now: theframeblog.com/2025/08/18/t...

Two conferences: November 2025 and February 2026 Following the successful virtual conference organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario in September 2024, with its fascinating and wide-ranging collection of papers, it is very satisfying to be able to report the advent of two more conferences, in…

The framing dept at the National Gallery has replaced a 1970s gilt repro frame on Titian's Noli me Tangere with this stunning early 16th century Venetian parcel-gilt walnut frame, with a beautifully carved double guilloche cushion frieze & inner fluting which adds to the illusion of recession...

There are still woodcarvers of extraordinary and breath-taking skill in the world, and one of them is Bernard Lankers in Berlin - @lankers-berlin.bsky.social‬ . He has helped to restore war-damaged woodwork and frames in the great palaces of Germany: theframeblog.com/2018/07/08/r...

Whether or not you like Holman Hunt's work, you must admire his amazing inventiveness when it comes to frames. 50+ years' worth, & many gathered here to show what he wanted you to see...: theframeblog.com/2025/07/20/h...

Holman Hunt’s frames A shorter version of this article was first published in The Pre-Raphaelite Society Review, 30th anniversary edition, vol. XXVI, no 3, autumn 2018 When we consider the revolutionary impact which the very young members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood must have had on…

Bordercore: Why frames became the new frontier in contemporary art by Katie White This article was first published on Artnet (News) on 3 April 2025, and is republished here with the permission of the author. For a century, the frame was meant to disappear. Today, it’s a site of rebellion,…

Southend Pier Museum is looking for volunteers to help run it. If you'd like help educate and inspire visitors, and can spare a few hours a week during the open season, the trustees would love to hear from you, at [email protected] or on 01702 611214.

Spent a few hours at the Swedish History Museum recently, and among all the shiny viking objects on show, this simple carved duck from Birka stood out to me. Ascribed all kinds of sublime and symbolic roles, it may have simply been a kid's toy; a beloved, ordinary plaything without frills or fuss 🦆

Coming soon on The Frame Blog: ‘Drawings and designs for frames'... theframeblog.com

Drinking Horn in the Form of a Dragon, Cornelius Groß, 1560/70 (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)

Everybody in every government everywhere should be made to watch Pleasantville, which is a metaphor for most of life, bigotry, growing up, the knowledge of good & evil, & a lot of other things. Watch it for the book-burning scene, & weep for all those blinded people who would ever destroy a book.

Turban-charged PRIapUS...

It's Monday, Latin dies Lunae - day of Luna, goddess of the #Moon. Therefore, for #MosaicMonday a detail of a mosaic from the #Roman villa at Orbe-Boscéaz, Yverdon-les-Bains region, Switzerland, depicting Luna in a two-horse chariot. Happy Monday to all of you! 🏺 #archaeology

It's the season for flower shows, so here are some of the most striking adaptations of flowers to frames, using their beauty but also their symbolic meanings to unify the border with the subject. See ‘Fruit, flowers, foliage: the symbolism of Renaissance frames' theframeblog.com/2020/11/19/f...

Peder Severin Krøyer's paintings of a Danish summer, and the frames which he designed for them... See ‘Artist's frames in 19th century Denmark' theframeblog.com/2021/07/22/a... #SkagensMuseum #PSKrøyer #StatensMuseumforKunst #TheFrameBlog

National Gallery: building a Gothic polyptych frame This is the story of how the panels of an enormous 14th century altarpiece, which were purchased by the National Gallery in 1857 as twelve separate paintings, have been united again in the most authentic replica Gothic polyptych frame to be…

It seems nowadays if we want the imperial purple you mentioned in a shiny metallic effect we have to look to Cadbury’s. This one even has the gold edging of Joseph’s cloak, but he’s having a hard time explaining to Mary and the young Jesus why it says Eclairs across it.

This is what I read out on air tonight. From the Holocaust museum. They know a thing or two about fascism…

Fragments: the Resurrection with angels c. 1500-1529, Flemish? Linen embroidered with coloured silk, silver and silver-gilt threads. (V&A Museum, London) #EasterSunday

@cerishields.bsky.social Thank you very much indeed for reposting two articles on The Frame Blog, and I hope that you're having a really nice Easter!

For Easter, here is the conservation of a framed, very early 17th century Calvary in the Universalmuseum Joanneum in Graz, Austria: theframeblog.com/2025/04/20/f...

Framed crucifixes. Part 1: conserving an Italian Calvary Introduction This is the first of a pair of articles on the small but important category of framed domestic crucifixes, which may have begun in Italy with altarpieces like the one featured here, and which produced - from the late 17th…

Cambi d’Aste, Genoa: Sale of antique frames on Tuesday 15th April 2025 A large and varied sale of frames, this will be held at the Castello Mackenzie in Genoa on Tuesday 15 April 2025, from 3.00 pm local time. Viewing is from 11-14 April. Note that in the catalogue the dimensions aren’t…

An altarpiece by Girolamo da Santacroce, who, like Carpaccio and Lotto, found a market for his work in the wider Venetian Republic, of Montenegro and modern Croatia. See ‘Girolamo da Santacroce’s polyptych in Košljun, Croatia' theframeblog.com/2014/06/14/g...

In this 250th post on The Frame Blog, Keith Christiansen looks at the framing of 15th-16th century Netherlandish works in The Metropolitan Museum, New York

The British Art Journal is back! Online only instead of hard copy britishartjournal.co.uk Subscribe it’s free!!! – to receive notifications Just click ‘Subscribe now’ at the top of the home page Our last printed edition was Volume XXIV in 2023 And so here, in 2025, is Volume XXV – online

#TheFrameBlog: Dorien Tamis examines the genre of C16-17 Dutch/Flemish frames decorated with figurative paintings. The genre was perhaps fuelled by Protestant wishes to break the illusionism of window-like frames & idolatry caused by too-realistic paintings See: theframeblog.com/2025/03/14/f...

Dorien Tamis's new article on The Frame Blog examines the rarely-researched area of figurative painted frames - here, in the Low Countries in the C16 and C17: theframeblog.com/2025/03/14/f...

Figurative frames in the Low Countries in the 16th & 17th centuries by Dorien Tamis Amongst frames made to hold a single painting (to differentiate them from those which are a part of a larger assemblage, i.e. an architectural ensemble, an altarpiece etc.), figurative painted frames stand out as a…

As it’s March it’s officially spring (this year the deep-frozen version). For artists it's quite different; look at Hans Thoma’s Spring, on the left, where hardy Germans throw their clothes off, paddle in brooks, and make music under lush July trees. theframeblog.com/2020/11/19/f...

Becky Burke of Book Island (a picture book publisher in the UK founded by my fellow Tokarczuk translator Greet Pauwelijn) was "detained" by ICE at the Canadian border on 2/28. Her father asked that her story be shared in case someone can help her. He writes:

Thierry de Maigret and Vincent Guerre: sale of antique frames in Paris, 11 March 2025 This auction will be held by Thierry de Maigret at the Hôtel Drouot at 11.00 a.m. and 1.30 p.m. local time on Tuesday 11 March. It includes a variety of frames, including some from the collection of the Berès…

This is the only answer to Trump and JD Vance : unitewithukraine.com/donate

Framed! European picture frames from the Johnson Collection, an exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art Curator’s introduction A picture frame can be a work of art in its own right. This installation explores how European frames changed from the 1500s to the 1800s, focusing on examples from…

Two more 21st frame exhibitions have been added to the summary of those which were mounted from 1931 to 2024: see The Frame Blog: theframeblog.com/2025/01/28/a...

Framing emptiness: an exhibition of inscribed Renaissance frames Tanja Lemke-Mahdavi and Olaf Lemke describe their exhibition of 15th and 16th century Italian and Spanish frames with painted and gilded inscriptions, all of which once had an intimate connection with the paintings they held,…

The world’s richest man is promoting the far right in Europe. Don’t buy a Tesla . Location: Tesla Gigafactory, Berlin www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjWl...

Frameless art, boundless Modernism: A chapter from the history of the clip frame by Volker M. Welter In May 1957, the Patent Office of the Federal Republic of Germany extended protection to a new method of hanging artwork which would render unnecessary any traditional picture frame. The clip, the…

This chest was tucked under a table upstairs at Blythe House: brilliant to see British Museum archivist @frannabel2010.bsky.social giving it the care and attention it deserves

@PerimeterInstitute.ca is really excited to host “Galileo and His Ingenious Discoveries” in collaboration with the Italian Embassy in Canada & the Galileo Museum in Florence Follow us to learn how to get tickets. This exhibition will be Feb 5 - 17th perimeterinstitute.ca/25-years?utm...