Further Recommended Reading on the subject:
Annie Ablett
'The Frame: Its Purpose to Protect' (two articles), in
The Picture Restorer, XVII
Spring 2000, pp. 13-16 and XVIII
Autumn 2000, pp. 9-11
'The Frame: Its Purpose to Enhance', in
The Picture Restorer, XXI
Spring 2002, pp. 9-12.
Reinier Baarsen
'Herman Doomer, ebony worker in Amsterdam', in
Burlington Magazine, CXXXVIII
1996, pp. 739-49 (illus.)
Hubert Baija
'Gilding in the Dutch Golden Age', in
Painting Techniques. History, Materials and Studio Practice. Summaries of the Posters at the Dublin Congress, 7-11 September 1998
International Institute for Conservation, 1998, unpaginated
Hubert Baija
'Een nieuwe lijst voor de Heilige Maagschap', in
Bulletin Van Het Rijksmuseum
Amsterdam, Vol.51, no. 2, 2003, pp.139-44 (8 illus., 2 diagrams)
W.H. Bailey
Defining Edges: A New Look at Picture Frames,
New York (Harry N. Abrams Inc), 2002, (illus.)
R. Baldi, G. Gualberto Lisini, C. Martelli and S. Martelli
La cornice fiorentina e senese: storia e tecniche di restauro
Florence (Alinea), 1992
Carl Barkman
'Med glas och förgyld bildhuggeriram' (The frames used for Lundberg's pastels), in
Gustaf Lundberg: 1695-1786: En porträttmålare och hans tid
Merit Laine and Carolina Brown, Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, 2006
pp.226-33, in Swedish with English summary (illlus.)
Claire M. Barry
'Swimming by Thomas Eakins: Its Construction, Condition, and Restoration', in
Thomas Eakins and the Swimming Picture, ed. Doreen Bolger and Sarah Cash
Exh. cat., Amon Carter Museum, Texas, 1996, pp. 111-2 & 116
Nancy Bell (ed.)
Historic Framing and Presentation of Watercolours, Drawings and Prints
Proceedings of conference held June 1996
Leigh, Worcester, Institute of Paper Conservation, 1997 (68 illus.)
Richard R. Brettell and Steven Starling
The Art of the Edge: European Frames, 1300-1900
Exhib. cat., Chicago, Art Institute, 1986
Judith Bronkhurst
William Holman Hunt: A Catalogue Raisonné
(2 vols), Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2006 (53 frames illus.)
Christian Burchard
'Bilderrahmen, Sprache der Ornamente: Beispiele aus der Sammlung Pfefferle, München', in
Barockberichte: Informationsblätter des Salzburger Barockmuseums zur bildenden Kunst des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts, XXIV/XXV, 1999, pp. 397-412 (illus.)
Stanley B. Burns
Forgotten Marriage: The Painted Tintype & The Decorative Frame 1860-1910
New York, The Burns Press, 1995 (illus.)
Mary Bustin
'Recalling the Past: Evidence for the Original Construction of Madonna Enthroned with Saints and Angels by Agnolo Gaddi', in
Conservation Research 1996/1997, Studies in the History of Art
Washington, National Gallery of Art, 57, 1997, pp. 35-60 (26 illus.)
I. Cahn
Cadres des peintres
Exhib. cat., Paris, Musée d'Orsay, 1989 (37 figs.)
I. Cahn
'Degas's frames', in
The Burlington Magazine, Vol. CXXXI, no. 1033, April 1989, pp. 289-92 (7 figs.)
Anthea Callen
'Framing the Debate', in
The Art of Impressionism: Painting technique & the making of modernity
New Haven & London, Yale University Press, 2000 ( 281 illus.)
Lorne Campbell
National Gallery Catalogues. The Fifteenth Century Netherlandish School
London, National Gallery, 1998
Peter Cannon-Brookes
'Picture Framing I: English Picture Frames in Three London Exhibitions, II:
Leighton at the Royal Academy', in
Museum Management and Curatorship, XV
1996, pp. 218-25 (illus.)
Peter Cannon-Brookes
'Picture Framing: A Framed Portrait from the Roman Empire', in
Museum Management and Curatorship, XVI
1997, pp. 312-4 (illus.)
Peter Cannon-Brookes
'Elias Ashmole, Grinling Gibbons and Three Picture Frames', in
Museum Management and Curatorship, XVIII
1999, pp.183-89 (3 figs.)
Alessandro Cecchi
'The conservation of Antonio and Piero del Pollaiuolo's altar-piece for the Cardinal of Portugal's chapel', in
Burlington Magazine, CXLI
1999, pp. 81-5 (3 illus.)
T. Clifford
'The Historical Approach to the Display of Paintings', in
The International Journal of Museum Management and Curatorship
I, 1982
Alec Cobbe
'The framing and restoration of the Historic Cobbe Collection', in
Clerics & Connoisseurs: The Rev. Matthew Pilkington, the Cobbe Family and the Fortunes of an Irish Art Collection through Three Centuries, ed. Alastair Laing
English Heritage, 2001, pp. 74-9 (24 illus.)
F. G. Conzen and G. Dietrich
Bilderrahmen. Stilverwendung Material
Munich, 1983
Anne Crookshank and the Knight of Glin
'Reflections on Some 18th Century Dublin Carvers' in
Avenues to the Past: Essays Presented to Sir Charles Brett on his 75th Year, ed.Terence Reeves-Smyth and Richard Oram
Belfast, 2003 (18 illus.)
David Curry
James MacNeill Whistler: Uneasy Pieces
University of Virginia Press, 2004
W. Ehlich
Bilderrahmen von der Antike bis zur Romantik
Dresden, 1979
English Heritage
Gilding: Approaches to Treatment. A joint conference of English Heritage and the United Kingdom Institute for Conservation, 27-28 September 2000
English Heritage, 2001, 84 pp. (66 illus.)
Kevin Fahy and Andrew Simpson
Australian Furniture: Pictorial History and Dictionary, 1788-1938
Woollahra (Casuarina Press), 1998 (illus).
David Franklin and Louis Alexander Waldman
'Two late altarpieces by Bachiacca', in
Apollo, CLIV, August 2001, pp. 30-5 (9 illus.)
S.E. Fuchs
Der Bilderrahmen
Recklinghausen, 1985 (146 illus.)
Francisco Herrera García
'En los Márgenes del Cuadro: El Marco en la Sevilla Barroca', in
Domingo Martínez: en la Estela de Murillo
Exh. cat., Centro Cultural el Monte, Seville, 2004, pp. 109-27
Christopher Gilbert
Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840
Furniture History Society & W.S. Maney & Sons Ltd, 1996 (illus.)
Claus Grimm
Alte Bilderrahmen. Epochen-Typen-Material
Munich (Georg Callwey), 1978 (survey with extended bibliography; 483 illus.)
Claus Grimm
The Book of Picture Frames (with a supplement on 'Frames in America' by George Szabo)
English edn. of Alte Bilderrahmen, New York (Albaris Books) 1981
(survey with 30 figs. and 489 plates)
M. Guggenheim
Le cornice italiane dalla metà del secolo XV allo scorcio del XVI
Milan, 1897
Stephen Hackney, Rica Jones and Joyce Townsend (eds)
Paint and Purpose: A study of technique in British Art
Tate Gallery Publishing, 1999
Edgar Harden
'Claude et les quatre Louis', in
Dossier de l'Art, no. 58, June 1999, pp. 64-7
Henry Heydenrijk
The Art and History of Frames
Journal of the History of Collections, vol.15, no.1, 2003, pp.59-82, 10 illustrations
Susan Higgott
'Sir Richard Wallace's maiolica: Sources and display', in
Journal of the History of Collections, Vol.15, no. 1, 2003, pp. 59-82 (10 illus.)
Laura Houliston
'Frame Making in Edinburgh 1790-1830', in
Regional Furniture, XIII
1999 (6 illus.)
Joop M. Joosten
'Framing Mondrian'
Unpublished paper given at the symposium, Modern Art in the Laboratory Technical Examination and Art Historical Implications, held at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., USA, 5 May 2001
(and see review in Conservation News, 76, November 2001, p. 47)
Andrea Kirsh and Rustin S. Levenson
'Beyond the Painting: On Framing', in
Seeing through Paintings: physical examination in art historical studies
Yale University Press, 2000, pp. 246-53 (8 illus.)
Margaret L. Koster
'The Arnolfini double portrait: A simple solution', in
Apollo, Vol. CLVIII, no. 499, September 2003, pp. 3-14 (27 illus.)
Olaf Lemka and Roberta Bartoli
Inscribed Frames from the 16th Century: Antike Rahmen und Antiquitäten
Berlin, c. 2005 (22 illus.)
Roberto Lodi and Amedeo Montanari
Repertorio Della Cornice Europea: Italia, Francia, Spagna, Paesi Bassi: Dal Secolo XV al Secolo XX
Modena (Edizioni Galleria Roberto Lodi), 2003 (830 colour illus.; 830 profile drawings)
Olga A. Lysenko
To Dress a Picture: Art and Frames in Russia from the Eighteenth to the Early Twentieth Centuries
State Russian Museum, St Petersburg, Palace Editions, 2005, text in Russian (103 colour illus.)
Ian McClure
'The Framing of Wooden Panels', in
The Structural Conservation of Panel Paintings, ed. Kathleen Dardes and Andrea Rothe Proceedings of a symposium at the J. Paul Getty Museum, 24-28 April 1995
Los Angeles, The Getty Conservation Institute, 1998, pp. 433-47 (illus.)
Pippa Mason
'The Framing and Display of Watercolours', in
Watercolours from Leeds City Art Gallery
Exh. cat., Leeds City Art Gallery, 1995, pp. 28-38 (5 illus.)
Melbourne Journal of Technical Studies in Art, vol. 1, Frames
Melbourne (University of Melbourne Conservation Service), 1999, (31 illus.)
(an issue dedicated to articles on the frame; mainly Australian)
Eva Mendgen (ed.)
In Perfect Harmony: Picture + Frame 1850-1920
Exhib. cat., Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum Van Gogh, 1995
P. Mitchell
'The Framing Tradition', in
Picture Framing, ed. Rosamund Wright-Smith
London (Orbis), 1980 (9 col. plates)
Paul Mitchell
'Italian Picture Frames 1500-1825: A Brief Survey', in
The Journal of the Furniture History Society, xx, 1984, pp. 18-27 (30 plates)
Paul Mitchell
'A Signed Frame by Jean Chérin', in
The International Journal of Museum Management and Curatorship, IV
1985, pp.147-54 (8 figs.)
Paul Mitchell
'Frames', in
Guide to the Exhibited Works in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection
Caroline de Watteville, Lugano and Milan, 1989, pp. 365-71
Paul Mitchell and Lynn Roberts
'Notes on Turner's Picture Frames', in
Museum Management and Curatorship, vol. 17. no. 3, Sept. 1998, pp. 324-333
Paul Mitchell and Lynn Roberts
'Frames' in
The Oxford Companion to J.M.W.Turner, ed. Joll, Butlin & Herrmann, OUP, 2001
[an abridged version of the article above, 'Notes on Turner's Picture Frames'].
Paul Mitchell and Lynn Roberts
'Burne-Jone's Picture Frames', in
Burlington Magazine, June 2000, pp.362-370
Paul Mitchell and Lynn Roberts
'Stubbs's frames', in
Judy Egerton, George Stubbs, Painter. Catalogue Raisonné
Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2007, pp. 84-89 (4 illus.)
Marilena Mosco
Antiche cornici italiane dal Cinquecento al Settecento
Exhib. cat., Tokyo, 1991; Florence, Galleria deigli Uffizi, 1991
Marilena Mosco and Edit Revai (eds)
Cornici Barocche e Stampe. Restaurate dai Depositi di Palazzo Pitti
Exh. cat., Florence, Palazzo Pitti, 1998
Marilena Mosco
'Two Important Crosten Frames for Two Unpublished Paintings by Bartolomeo Bimbi', in
DecArt, I, March 2004, pp. 8-15 (8 illus.)
Marilena Mosco
Cornici dei Medici: La fantasia barocca al servizio del potere
[Medici frames: Baroque Caprice for the Medici Princes]
Mauro Pagliai, 2007, English translation (illus. throughout)
Tessa Murdoch
'Jean, René and Thomas Pelletier, a Huguenot family of carvers and gilders in England 1682-1726', in
Burlington Magazine, CXXXIX, 1997 (7 illus.)
Tessa Murdoch
'The king's cabinet-maker: the giltwood furniture of James Moore the Elder', in
Burlington Magazine, Vol. CXLV, 2003, pp. 408-20 (21 illus.)
Tessa Murdoch
'A French Carver at Norfolk House: The Mysterious Mr Cuenot', in
Apollo, Vol. CLXIII, June 2006, pp. 36 & 54-63 (11 illus.)
Timothy Newbery, G. Bisacca and L. Kanter
Italian Renaissance Frames
Exhib. cat., New York, Metropolitan Museum, 1990 (24 figs., 84 plates)
Timothy Newbery
Frames and Framings in the Ashmolean Museum
Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, 2002 (37 illus.)
Timothy Newbery
Frames in the Robert Lehman Collection
New York, Metropolitan Museum, and Princeton University Press, 2007 (illus. throughout)
Geraldine Norman
'In the Frame', in
Hermitage Magazine, I, Summer 2003, pp. 8-9 (3 illus.)
Judy Oberhausen and Nic Peeters
'Rediscovering a Pre-Raphaelite masterpiece: A Spencer Stanhope altarpiece', in
The British Art Journal, Vol. VIII, no. 1, Summer 2007, pp. 68-72 (15 illus.)
Michael O'Malley
The Business of Art: Contracts and the Commissioning Process in Renaissance Italy
Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 2005, (illus. throughout)
Maria Letizia Papini
L'ornamento della pittura. Cornici, arredo e disposizione della Collezione Corsini di Roma nel XVIII secolo
Rome, Nuova Argos Edizioni Srl, 1998
John Payne
Framing in the Nineteenth Century: Picture Frames 1837-1935
National Gallery of Victoria, 2007 (fully illus. throughout)
Nicholas Penny
'Frame Studies I: Reynolds and picture frames', in
Burlington Magazine, CXXVIII, 1986, pp. 810-825 (29 illus.)
Nicholas Penny
'Raphael's Madonna dei garofani rediscovered', in
Burlington Magazine, Vol. CXXXIV, no. 1067, 1992, pp. 67-81 (27 illus.)
Nicholas Penny
'The Study and Imitation of Old Picture-Frames', in
Burlington Magazine, Vol. CXL, 1998, pp. 375-82
(and see letter, Burlington Magazine, CXLI, 1999, p. 354)
Nicholas Penny
The Sixteenth Century Italian Paintings. I: Paintings from Bergamo, Brescia and Cremona
National Gallery, London, 2004 (illus.)
Nicholas Penny
'Exhibition Reviews: Italian art in the Royal Collection', in
Burlington Magazine, Vol. CIL, 2007, pp. 795-8 (8 illus.)
Horacio Pérez-Hita
La colección Alorda-Derksen: Marcos de los siglos XVI-XVIII [ Frames from 16th-18th centuries]
Barcelona and London, Spanish and English text, 2006 (illus. throughout)
Carol Plazotta et al.
'The Madonna di Loretto: An Altarpiece by Perugino for Santa Maria dei Servi, Perugia', in
National Gallery Technical Bulletin, Vol. 12, 2006, pp.72-95
Peter van der Ploeg and Carola Vermeeren
Princely Patrons: The Collection of Frederick Henry of Orange and Amalia of Solms in The Hague
Exh. cat., Mauritshuis, The Hague, and Waanders Publishers, Zwolle, 1997, pp. 164-9
Christine Powell
'Some French and English Gilding Techniques: The making and gilding of an 18th century English-style mirror frame with tooled gesso work', in
SSCR Journal, The Quarterly News Magazine of the Scottish Society for Conservation and Restoration, IX, 1998, pp. 5-14
Revue de l'Art, no. 76, 1989
(an issue dedicated to articles on the frame)
Lynn Roberts
'Nineteenth Century English Picture Frames I: The Pre-Raphaelites', in
The International Journal of Museum Management and Curatorship, IV, 1985 pp. 155-72 (24 illus.)
Lynn Roberts
'Nineteenth Century English Picture Frames II: The Victorian High Renaissance', in
The International Journal of Museum Management and Curatorship, V, 1986 pp. 273-93 (25 illus.)
Lynn Roberts
'Victorian Frames' in
In Perfect Harmony, ed. Eva Mendgen,
Exhib. cat., Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum Van Gogh, 1995, pp.57-86
Lynn Roberts
'Glossary', in
Judith Bronkhurst, William Holman Hunt: A Catalogue Raisonné
(2 vols), Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2006
Bettina von Roenne
Ein Architekt rahmt Bilder: Karl Friedrich Schinkel und die Berliner Gemäldegalerie
Exh. cat., Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, 2007 (illus. throughout)
Jenny Rose
'An Investigation into the Domestic Care of Paintings in English Country Houses in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries', in
Studies in the History of Paintings Restoration, ed. Christine Sitwell and Sarah Staniforth
Archetype Publications, London, 1998, pp.139-80.
F. Sabatelli, E. Colle and P. Zambrano
La cornice italiana dal Rinascimento al Neoclassico
Milan, 1992 (115 figs., 117 col. plates)
Malgorzata Sawicki
'Picture Frame Conservation or Repairing?' in
AICCM (Inc) Bulletin, Australian Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Materials (Inc)
Vol. 20, no. 2, 1995, pp. 17-25
Christoph Schölzel
'Der Dresdener Galerierahmen Geschichte, Technik, Restaurierung', in
ZKK: Zeitschrift für Kunsttechnologie und Konservierung, XVI
2002, pp. 104-29 (34 illus.)
Tobias Schmitz
Lexikon der europäischen Bilderrahmen
Published by the author German (ISBN 3-00-011231-6), 2003 (510 illus.)
Helge Siefert
Claude-Joseph Vernet: 1714-1789
Exh. cat., Neue Pinakothek, Munich, 1997, pp. 32-4 & 85-7
Jacob Simon
The Art of the Picture Frame: Artists, Patrons and the Framing of Portraits in Britain
Exhib. cat., London, National Portrait Gallery, 1986
Jacob Simon
'Frame Studies II: Allan Ramsay and picture frames', in
The Burlington Magazine , Vol. CXXXVI, 1994, no. 1096, pp. 444-55
Jacob Simon
'The production, framing and care of English pastel portraits in the eighteenth century', in
The Paper Conservator, XXII, 1998, pp. 10-20 (7 illus.)
Jacob Simon
'Thomas Johnson's The Life of the Author', in
Furniture History Society, 2003 (13 illus.)
Also published in Furniture History, XXXIX, 2003
Kim Sloan
J.M.W. Turner: Watercolours from the R.W. Lloyd Bequest to the British Museum
Exh. cat., British Museum, 1998, pp. 2, 19-21, 60, 88
Sotheby's
Old Master Paintings from the collection of Gustav Adolf Sparre (1746-1794)
Sale catalogue, London, 5 December 2007
Sabine Spindler
Bilderrahmen des Klassizismus und der Romantik: 1780-1850
Spindlerfinearts, 2007, ( c.200 illus.)
Joyce Hill Stoner
'Whistler's views on the restoration and display of his paintings', in
Studies in Conservation, XLII, 1997, pp. 107-14 (6 illus.)
Alfred Strange and Leo Cremer
Alte Bilderrahmen
Darmstadt, 1958 (25 illus.)
P. J. J. van Thiel and C. J. de Bruyn Kops
Prijst de Lijst
Exhib. cat., Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, 1984
trans. as Framing in the Golden Age, 1995 (117 illus & diagrams)
María Pía Timón Tiemblo
Coleccion Cano de P.E.A.: El Marco Espanol en la Historia del Arte
[The Spanish Frame in the History of Art]
P.E.A., S.A., Madrid, c. 1998/99 (85 illus., 46 sections)
María Pía Timón Tiemblo
El marco en España: del mundo romano al inicio del modernismo
Madrid, Humanes, 2002
Joyce H. Townsend, Jacqueline Ridge and Stephen Hackney
Pre-Raphaelite Painting Techniques
London, Tate Publishing, 2004 (illus.)
Joyce H. Townsend (ed.)
William Blake: The Painter at Work
London, Tate Publishing, 2003 (145 illus.)
Anne Vazquez
'American frames: 1900-1950', March, pp.74-82 (10 illus.)
'American frames: The 1950s', May, pp.28-32 (3 illus.)
'American frames: The 1960s', July, pp.44-6 (3 illus.); in
Picture Framing Magazine, 2001, Vol. 12
Hélène Verougstraete-Marcq and Roger Van Schoute
Cadres et supports dans la peinture flamande aux 15e et 16e siècles
Heure-le-Romain, 1989
Hélène Verougstraete and Roger Van Schoute
'Frames and supports in Campin's Time', in
Robert Campin: New Directions in Scholarship, ed. Susan Foister and Susie Nash
1996, pp. 87-93
Hélène Verougstraete and Roger Van Schoute
'The Origin and Significance of Marbling and Monochrome Paint Layers on Frames and Supports in Netherlandish Painting of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries', in
Painting Techniques, History, Materials and Studio Practice, ed. Ashok Roy & Perry Smith
International Institute for Conservation on the occasion of the Dublin Congress September 1998, pp. 98-100.
Hélène Verougstraete and Roger Van Schoute
'Frames and Supports of Some Eyckian Paintings', in
Investigating Jan Van Eyck, ed. Susan Foister, Sue Jones and Delphine Cool
Belgium, Turnhout, 2000, pp. 107-17 (6 illus.)
Jorgen Wadum
'Historical Overview of Panel-Making Techniques in the Northern Countries', in
The Structural Conservation of Panel Paintings, ed. Kathleen Dardes & Andrea Rothe Proceedings of a symposium at the J. Paul Getty Museum, 24-28 April 1995
Los Angeles, The Getty Conservation Institute, 1998, pp. 149-177 (illus).
Richard Wendorf
'Framing Rossetti', in
Studies in British Art: 15: After Sir Joshua: Essays on British Art and Cultural History
Yale University Press, 2005, pp. 77-107 (10 illus.)
Arthur K. Wheelock
'The Framing of a Vermeer' in
Collected Opinions: Essays on Netherlandish Art In Honour of Alfred Bader
ed. Volker Manuth & Axel Rüger
London, Paul Holberton Publishing, 2004, pp. 232-39
Lucy Whitaker and Jonathan Marsden
'Re-framing the Royal Pictures: Episodes in the history of royal taste', in
Apollo, CLVI, September 2002, pp. 50-56 (12 colour illus.)
Angus Whitehead
'The Arlington Court Picture: A surviving example of William Blake's framing practice', in
The British Art Journal, Vol. VIII, no. 1, Summer 2007, pp. 30-33 (4 illus.)
Arnold Wiggins & Sons
A Hang of English Frames, 1620-1920, 1996
Flaming June, 1996
Lawrence, Morant and a Picture Frame from Harewood, 1996
Frames for Drawings, c. 2000
Frame estampillé P.F. Milet, 2005
A Carved Picture-Frame by Professor Giusti of Siena, 2006
Daniel Wildenstein
'Gauguin and the modern frame' and 'The decorated frame', in
Gauguin: A Savage in the Making (Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings 1873-1888)
Skira/Wildenstein Institute, I, 2002 (illus.)
Eli Wilner (ed.)
The Gilded Edge: The Art of the Frame
San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 2000 (168 illus.)
Eli Wilner and Mervyn Kaufman
Antique American Frames: Identification and Price Guide
Avon Books, New York, 1995 (illus.)
Stefano Zuffi
The Frame, Evolution and Design: From the Sixties to the Present with Arquati Models
Electa, Milan, 1996, English and Italian texts (illus. throughout)
Note: The website of the National Portrait Gallery, London, at http://www.npg.org.uk, provides wide ranging information on current research and events, together with an annotated bibliography of frame publications from 1995 – 2007.
