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The Frame Blog is an online magazine for articles, interviews and reviews about antique picture frames.
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The Drawings section of The Frame Blog is growing: here is a glimpse of Adam's scheme for Headfort House, Ireland.
For more British frame drawings, go to theframeblog.com/drawings-and... and scroll down for century and country.
For more British frame drawings, go to theframeblog.com/drawings-and... and scroll down for century and country.
October 12, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The Drawings section of The Frame Blog is growing: here is a glimpse of Adam's scheme for Headfort House, Ireland.
For more British frame drawings, go to theframeblog.com/drawings-and... and scroll down for century and country.
For more British frame drawings, go to theframeblog.com/drawings-and... and scroll down for century and country.
Here for 29th September, Michaelmas, is one of the best depictions of St Michael in all his knightly splendour (Sternberg Palace, Prague)...
...See also: theframeblog.com/2020/11/19/f...
...See also: theframeblog.com/2020/11/19/f...
September 29, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Here for 29th September, Michaelmas, is one of the best depictions of St Michael in all his knightly splendour (Sternberg Palace, Prague)...
...See also: theframeblog.com/2020/11/19/f...
...See also: theframeblog.com/2020/11/19/f...
I think that this one is his daughter, Baba, whom we knew, on a sea horse - much more modernist than a squirrel (and much more terrifying, as well)...
September 12, 2025 at 11:10 PM
I think that this one is his daughter, Baba, whom we knew, on a sea horse - much more modernist than a squirrel (and much more terrifying, as well)...
Rigoberto A. González, “Refugees Crossing the Border Wall into South Texas” (2020)
August 22, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Rigoberto A. González, “Refugees Crossing the Border Wall into South Texas” (2020)
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...
July 26, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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...
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...:
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July 21, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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...
theframeblog.com/2025/07/20/h...
June 20, 2025 at 10:43 AM
...and I'm sure all his men were baahind him.🙂
June 7, 2025 at 11:33 PM
...and I'm sure all his men were baahind him.🙂
One Reynolds I am knocked over by is the wonderfully-named Charles Coote, Earl of Belmont, arrayed for - er, not quite sure what, exactly, but suspect that whatever it is he's not going to get to it by coach...
June 7, 2025 at 5:24 PM
One Reynolds I am knocked over by is the wonderfully-named Charles Coote, Earl of Belmont, arrayed for - er, not quite sure what, exactly, but suspect that whatever it is he's not going to get to it by coach...
We were at Kenwood yesterday, and it's hard not to be completely won over by Romney painting Emma H as an innocent village maiden spinning her wool, but with an extremely sultry melting glance over her shoulder...
June 7, 2025 at 5:19 PM
We were at Kenwood yesterday, and it's hard not to be completely won over by Romney painting Emma H as an innocent village maiden spinning her wool, but with an extremely sultry melting glance over her shoulder...
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...
See ‘Fruit, flowers, foliage: the symbolism of Renaissance frames' theframeblog.com/2020/11/19/f...
May 26, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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...
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
See ‘Artist's frames in 19th century Denmark' theframeblog.com/2021/07/22/a...
#SkagensMuseum #PSKrøyer #StatensMuseumforKunst #TheFrameBlog
May 20, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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
See ‘Artist's frames in 19th century Denmark' theframeblog.com/2021/07/22/a...
#SkagensMuseum #PSKrøyer #StatensMuseumforKunst #TheFrameBlog
@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!
April 20, 2025 at 1:07 PM
@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!
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...
See ‘Girolamo da Santacroce’s polyptych in Košljun, Croatia' theframeblog.com/2014/06/14/g...
April 8, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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...
See ‘Girolamo da Santacroce’s polyptych in Košljun, Croatia' theframeblog.com/2014/06/14/g...
#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...
See: theframeblog.com/2025/03/14/f...
March 18, 2025 at 12:20 PM
#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...
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...
theframeblog.com/2025/03/14/f...
March 14, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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...
theframeblog.com/2025/03/14/f...
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.
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theframeblog.com/2020/11/19/f...
March 14, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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...
theframeblog.com/2020/11/19/f...
...and its legacy is bitter experience.
February 28, 2025 at 5:43 PM
...and its legacy is bitter experience.
March 12 is a Wednesday, when I shall almost certainly be there...? 🙂
Simone Martini always top of the list - even ones in rectilinear frames which are original...
Simone Martini always top of the list - even ones in rectilinear frames which are original...
February 25, 2025 at 2:37 PM
March 12 is a Wednesday, when I shall almost certainly be there...? 🙂
Simone Martini always top of the list - even ones in rectilinear frames which are original...
Simone Martini always top of the list - even ones in rectilinear frames which are original...
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...
theframeblog.com/2025/01/28/a...
February 14, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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...
theframeblog.com/2025/01/28/a...
The best of all worlds, of course, is a hedgehog in a good frame! 🙂 🙂 🙂
January 17, 2025 at 7:39 PM
The best of all worlds, of course, is a hedgehog in a good frame! 🙂 🙂 🙂
This Rest on the Flight into Egypt was painted by Samuel Palmer when he was only 19 or 20 – before he had even moved down to Shoreham in Kent, where the full flight of his mystical imagination took wing.
January 17, 2025 at 7:28 PM
This Rest on the Flight into Egypt was painted by Samuel Palmer when he was only 19 or 20 – before he had even moved down to Shoreham in Kent, where the full flight of his mystical imagination took wing.
@wittspat.bsky.social Thank you! 🙂 🙂 🙂
January 7, 2025 at 1:10 PM
@wittspat.bsky.social Thank you! 🙂 🙂 🙂
Here for Epiphany is Bartolomeo di Giovanni’s tondo of the Adoration of the Magi, in its giltwood frame with a garland of cherubs’ heads.
More tondi: theframeblog.com/2021/02/25/t...
More Della Robbia: theframeblog.com/2020/11/19/f...
More tondi: theframeblog.com/2021/02/25/t...
More Della Robbia: theframeblog.com/2020/11/19/f...
January 6, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Here for Epiphany is Bartolomeo di Giovanni’s tondo of the Adoration of the Magi, in its giltwood frame with a garland of cherubs’ heads.
More tondi: theframeblog.com/2021/02/25/t...
More Della Robbia: theframeblog.com/2020/11/19/f...
More tondi: theframeblog.com/2021/02/25/t...
More Della Robbia: theframeblog.com/2020/11/19/f...