In the period of the Italian Renaissance, the most successful and widely diffused type of gallery frame is that which has come to be known as the Sansovino frame.

Drawing on the outstanding collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, this book presents a unique, fully illustrated survey that traces the Italian frame from its origins in the great Gothic altarpieces through its various, often elaborate manifestations as an independent unit up to the seventeenth century.

2020年11月19日 · It reveals that already, at this early period, the garland frame full of symbolic fruits was in use for sacred subjects, filched from the wreaths and festoons on classical sarcophagi or mosaic roundels, but interpreting each fruit with meanings applicable to the Christian era (for more on this subject, see ‘Fruit, flowers, foliage: the ...

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We specialize in the reproduction of Renaissance Picture Frames since 1905. Tuscany is an Italian region where Renaissance art was born around the beginning of the 15th century. For this reason, the majority of original Renaissance frames existing, come from Tuscany. On this website, you mostly find Renaissance frames with the cassetta structure.

Already by the mid-15 th century the fashion in Florence for elaborate Gothic altarpieces had yielded to the triumphant, all’antica style of the Renaissance, whereby a single, square or rectangular panel (the quadro) with a unified picture field was adorned with a frame incorporating pilasters or columns and an entablature derived from ...

Reproduction of Renaissance Siena frame with black paint on gold. It’s a 16th-century typical Cassetta frame with black squares along the outer edge.

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With ornate details finished in Italy and professional construction in the USA, this Italian Renaissance frame is the perfect companion to your favorite art.