The new post on The Frame Blog is the second in a group on framed crucifixes and domestic altarpieces of the crucifixion. This group dates from the 10th to the 16th century, and most are carved... See: theframeblog.com/2026/08/05/f...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

There is even more fascination on The Frame Blog entière, as it were... 🙂 theframeblog.com/archives/

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

Here is Jean Bourdichon's Nativity (c.1480-90), when shepherds and angels have left the Holy Family in peace. It decorates a French Book of Hours in the Getty Museum, and has an outer border of symbolic flowers, foliage, fruit and trees. See theframeblog.com/2020/11/19/f...

Happy Christmas, everyone!

In the exhibition of J-L David's work at Musée du Louvre (Oct2025-Jan2026), there is an extra dimension to the paintings in many of the frames... David's frames: theframeblog.com/2024/04/17/j...

There is a sale by Euvrard & Fabre, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, coming up on 20 November, which includes 160+ antique picture frames & a group of looking-glass frames...: theframeblog.com/2025/11/17/e...

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.

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...

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)

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...: theframeblog.com/2025/07/20/h...

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

...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...