Sale of antique frames at Cambi d’Aste, Genoa, on Wednesday 15th April 2026: theframeblog.com/2026/04/07/c...

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…

Here for Easter Sunday is Titian's Resurrection gonfalone in its brilliant Domus Aurea-style border... See too Raphel's gonfalone: theframeblog.com/2022/09/10/p...

Here for Good Friday is a Crucifixion in the Rijksmuseum, carved in boxwood by Albert Jansz Vinckenbrinck (1604-65), and set what is almost certainly its original Mannerist frame... theframeblog.com/2022/07/23/f...

You should never left us;(

I've just signed a petition calling on the UK government to give British businesses a better deal with Europe. Add your name: www.europeanmovement.co.uk/single-marke...

Now on The Frame Blog: Maarten vn t'Klooster's book on historic picture frames in general + Netherlandish frames in particular has three reviews. It's a stunningly illustrated book, and is written for the layman/-woman. theframeblog.com/2026/03/23/b...

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…

“Help or we take Greenland” is a wild escalation ladder.

So it turns out Reform are laundering their donations through crypto, before converting them into cash, hiding the original source of the money. So who is really funding Nigel Farage and Reform UK? observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Help Ukraine - unitewithukraine.org/flau#monthly...

To accompany the Frick Collection's Gainsborough exhibition (The Fashion of Portraiture), here's quick look at how fashion in frames, as much as in dress, altered through the course of the artist's career... ...and see : theframeblog.com/2021/02/10/t...

Lots of people questioning whether the King should visit the United States. I think he definitely should; to recolonise it.

Clasps, for the dedicated follower of fashion 😊 Both corset and clog. Just a couple of decorated corset clasps, but they went to town to add a bit of bling to their clogs 🥰

A number of similar frames have appeared on the art market in Barcelona during recent years... See more at: theframeblog.com/2026/03/06/1...

17th – 18th century silvered & lacquered frames from Barcelona by Gema de Cambra Florensa Introduction This article attempts to describe, identify and locate the origin of a group of unusual Spanish Baroque frames. Several examples of these architrave, flat or plate frames, finished in silverleaf,…

The before and after states of reframing projects at the National Gallery are remarkable illustrations of just how much difference a frame can make to the painting it holds... (here, Mantegna's Holy Family & John the Baptist) See more at: theframeblog.com/2026/02/18/r...

When I hear someone say, “russia wants peace,” it feels like they’re mocking us. While they say this, we are hiding our children in shelters from russian missiles and drones.

Healthcare in Greenland is publicly funded, free at the point of use, and despite geographical challenges considered very good. Healthcare costs in the USA are extortionate and responsible for 60% of all US bankruptcies. So maybe Denmark should be sending hospital ships the other way.

#Trump is a #loser 🥴

The Wallace Collection is hosting a series of talks on women connected with it, including a framemaker - the 19th century sculptor & frame designer, Félicie de Fauveau. Amongst other things, she produced these two (National Gallery & Wallace). See more at www.wallacecollection.org/documents/22...

@truedoriangrey.bsky.social Thank you so much for the reposts - how kind of you 🙂

Reframing at the National Gallery, London: Part 5 This is the fifth of a series of short articles on the reframing projects undertaken by the National Gallery, London, under the Head of Framing, Peter Schade. The articles were originally published in the National Gallery’s Review of the Year, from…

This is absolutely insane. The sort of Kafka-esque nightmare you would find in a Philip K Dick book set far in the dystopian future. A window on America tumbling into autocracy. www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

Executed (alas!) on this day in 1587, Mary Queen of Scots. Here just seven years old and already a queen at the court of France. Drawn by Clouet.

Good Q @SarahKSilvermam

Rare Semper Augustus striped tulips crown these flowers arranged in a glass vase by Elias van den Broeck, whose day is today.

This morning at the Minnesota State Capitol. An ice sculpture that reads "PROSECUTE ICE". I'm told the organization behind the sculpture is Common Defense.

A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world

Sick to death of greedy, predatory American companies thinking they can ride roughshod over a country's taxes and labour laws. Good for the French. Make sure you get that money back for your taxpayers.

Still my daily cup. Whatever it takes, for as long as it takes, wherever and whenever one can - despite the increasing chance that it may not come in my lifetime. Do the right thing for no other reason than it's the right thing to do. Ethical behavior matters. Everywhere, all the time.

Truesec has observed that the Russian hacker alliance, known as the Russian Legion, has issued a warning targeting Denmark regarding an imminent large-scale cyberattack, codenamed “OpDenmark.” www.truesec.com/hub/blog/new...

Gambling again? They never learn. (Seen near Runfold Nature Reserve).

John Constable and picture frames John Constable and picture frames by Jacob Simon This is an initial exploration of some of John Constable’s landscape frames, primarily his Royal Academy exhibits, on the occasion of the Tate exhibition, Turner & Constable: rivals & originals (until 12 April 2026)…

25th January celebrates the conversion of St Paul from persecutor of Christians to faithful follower of Christ...

Flight into Egypt. As with real refugees, they are exhausted, even the donkey. Unusual and rather lovely version of subject by Adriaen van der Werff, born OTD 1659.

Tom Baker is 92 today

More trompe l'oeil frames (including Henry VII's, who married wife 1 on 18 Jan 1486)... For Uccello see: theframeblog.com/2024/07/26/n... #Frames #TrompeLOeilFrames #Illusions #15thCenturyFrames #HenryVII #NationalPortraitGallery #NGofIreland #Rijksmuseum #TheFrameBlog

This - 16 January 2026 - is the last day to apply for the 2026 Gernsheim Study Days: 'Framing the Drawing. Drawing the Frame' (Rome, 13-15 May 26)... Details here: theframeblog.com/2025/12/21/f...

A presentation 'Pastiglia in Italian Renaissance cassoni ...', given by Professor Svetlana Nikolskaya at a conference on pastiglia in 2025, has just been published on The Frame Blog... theframeblog.com/2026/01/13/p...

Pastiglia in Italian Renaissance cassoni of the 14th–16th centuries Professor Svetlana Nikolskaya  This paper was given at the conference 'Pastiglia decoration', held on 18th November 2025 at the State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan, Kazan. Because pastiglia decoration, both as a…

Died (alas!) on this day in 1578, Giulio Clovio of Croatia, great miniaturist of the Italian renaissance. He did small what Michelangelo did large. Here, by himself (with his dog!) in 1528. @theframeblog.bsky.social

Here for Epiphany is Domenico Ghirlandaio's tondo, The Adoration of the Magi, in the Uffizi since 1790. It's 171.5 cm. across, and was painted in 1487... Tondi: theframeblog.com/2021/02/25/t... Medici frames: auricularstyleframes.wordpress.com/archives/

As today is a calendar juncture, here is Poussin's A Dance to the Music of Time at the Wallace Collection... Happy New Year! See more: theframeblog.com/2024/10/21/f...